Another Network Manager Stupidity: Swapping eth0 and eth1

jim lawrence fedorajim at gmail.com
Tue May 9 22:42:51 UTC 2006


On 5/9/06, Matthew Saltzman <mjs at ces.clemson.edu> wrote:
> On Tue, 9 May 2006, Charles Curley wrote:
>
> > I have just found what may be another Network Manager (NM)
> > stupidity. I have two NICs on my laptop
> > (http://www.charlescurley.com/Lenovo.R51.html) running Fedora Core
> > 5. One is a wired Ethernet interface, the other a wireless Ethernet
> > interface. In system-config-network, I have anchored eth0 and eth1 to
> > specific MAC addresses.
> >
> > I recently switched from using the usual configuration tools to NM. I
> > just found out is that NM seems to be ignoring that MAC address
> > anchoring. It has swapped eth0 and eth1. As a result of this the
> > firewall defined by firestarter does not work, and as a result of that
> > my system is wide open and has been for several days.
> >
> > This came to my attention because I started to think I may have a root
> > kit on my laptop, and started to track things down. "Pain-Free
> > Networking", huh?
>
> This is not a NetworkManager issue.  You owe NetworkManager an apology,
> and you need initscripts-8.31.2-1 (which is apparently *still* in
> updates-testing 8^( ).
>
>
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>
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> mjs AT clemson DOT edu
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--
Funny I just found the same thing  my ethernet card (Wired) was a
wireless device and my Wireless device was a ethernet device.   Blew
the  devices away and rebooted.  created new profiles and rebooted. 
all set !

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