Mess in network
Michael Schwendt
mschwendt at gmail.com
Mon Mar 10 16:29:12 UTC 2008
On Mon, 10 Mar 2008 07:54:48 -0500, Les Mikesell wrote:
> Antonio M wrote:
> > 2008/3/10, pursley1 at netscape.net <pursley1 at netscape.net>:
> >>
> >>
> >> Unfortunately -
> >> 1) We don't know which updated component is messing up the network
> >> connection.
> > from the list of updated component we should reduce the hunt
> >
> >> 2) I'm relatively new to Fedora (but not Linux) and so I don't know
> >> where to file bugs anyway.
> >
> > bugzilla.redhat.com is the place.
> >
> >> 3) Since it only did it on 1 of my 2 computers, it seems to be some
> >> problem dependent on the hardware...or luck.
> >>
> >>
> > I assumed long ago that there is no luck or magic in software.... :-)
>
> It became magic when the kernel started detecting devices in parallel so
> the names are essentially randomized. The ethN devices are supposed to
> be sorted out and renamed before activation if you have the ethernet
> hardware address in the corresponding
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-ethN file. Run 'ifconfig' and be
> sure the hwaddr matches what is in your file for each nic.
Doubtful. I do have the h/w addr in the files. The name of the
devices did not change either. I just had to drop the appended ".bak"
and bring up the if. On next boot, the failure is not repeated.
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