First NIC appearing as eth10 instead of expected eth0

[John Summerfield]

thomas62186218 at aol.com wrote:
> Hi All,
> 
> I am running Fedora 8 32-bit with no updates (fresh install) on a server 
> with a Tyan S5380 motherboard with the latest 2.00 BIOS. This 
> motherboard has two Intel GbE ports on the motherboard.
> 
> Oddly, when I type ifconfig -a, these GbE ports appear as eth10 and 
> eth11. There is no eth0. I've been around Linux for a few years and have 
> never seen anything like this, so I'm stumped. Why would it not map 
> these GbE ports as eth0 and eth1, as expected?
<snip>

> 
> Any ideas on this?
No, but I have seen this behaviour on a virtual Debian system I have 
here. In my case, I attributed it without much thought to the fact I did 
not provide a MAC address, and I was running it directly with qemu-kvm 
and not through virt* (which provides a consistent one for each virtual 
machine).


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Cheers
John

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