First NIC appearing as eth10 instead of expected eth0

John Summerfield debian at herakles.homelinux.org
Thu Jan 24 14:58:42 UTC 2008


Timothy Murphy wrote:
> thomas62186218 at aol.com wrote:
> 
> 


> 
> In addition to the entries in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth?
> and /etc/modprobe.conf mentioned by others,

I'm sceptical about /etc/modprobe.conf; "alias etho fred" says that when 
I "ifconfig eth0: there's an automatic modprobe for fred.

fred will load and grab any NIC it can drive, and I expect that all the 
NICs on the mobo are driven by the same driver.

> I think udev can affect the naming of interfaces,

I'm sure you're right. It's a complication I'm trying to ignore:-)

> as determined eg on my system by the entries
> in /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules .
> 


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Cheers
John

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