On Saturday 06 Apr 2013 20:03:15 Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> Am 06.04.2013 17:57, schrieb Alan Mackenzie:
> > Hi, Nick.
> >
> > On Sat, Apr 06, 2013 at 10:51:42AM -0400, Nick Khamis wrote:
> >> After updating our systems we lost network connectivity to the
> >> servers. When trying to start net.eth0 we got the following message:
> >> /ib64/rc/net/wpa_supplicant.sh: line 68: _is wireless command not found
> >> /etc/init.d/net.eth0: line 548: _exists command not found
> >> Errror: Interface eth0 does not exist
> >> Ensure that you have loaded the correct kernel modules for your hardware
> >> # lsmod
> >> module used by
> >> tg3 0
> >> lbphy tg3
> >> eth0
> >> flags=4098<broadcast,multicast> mtu 1500
> >> ....
> >> interrupt=16
> >>
> >> lo
> >> flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING> mtu 16436
> >> inet 127.0.0.1 BROADCAST 255.255.255.0
> >> inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 scopeid 0x10 <host>
> >>
> >> Please excuse me, I am running back and forth from the servers and
> >> typing the error message here. Did our configuration get switched to
> >> IP6? These are our DB servers and why me!!! Why ME!!!!!
> >
> > No, it's not just you, it's happened to pretty much everybody. udev-200
> > now renames eth0, eth1, .... to something else, dependent upon
> > complicated rules. In my case eth0 has become p6p1, though many people
> > seem to have got longer names.
> >
> > Have a look in /sys/class/net and see if your new name is there. If so,
> > edit all your config files containing eth0, switching to the new name.
> >
> > Once you got that done and things work again, take a deep breath and have
> > a look at the most recent Gentoo news item ($ eselect news read) which
> > explains it all, more or less. Then decide whether the above is a long
> > term solution, and if not start reading docs about writing udev rules.
> >
> > Yes, it's a pain in the backside. But at least with Gentoo, you've a
> > good chance of fixing things like this quickly.
> >
> >> Your help is greatly appreciated,
> >> Nick
>
> in my case it is still eth0:
> ifconfig
> eth0: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> inet 192.168.178.21 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast
> 192.168.178.255
> inet6 fe80::1e6f:65ff:fe87:6f6a prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20<link>
> ether 1c:6f:65:87:6f:6a txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
> RX packets 4647305 bytes 6693078055 (6.2 GiB)
> RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
> TX packets 2943816 bytes 226871998 (216.3 MiB)
> TX errors 0 dropped 1 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
>
> sys-fs/udev
> Available versions: (~)168-r2[1] [M]171-r10 197-r8^t{tbz2}
> (~)198-r6^t{tbz2} (~)199-r1^t{tbz2} 200^t{tbz2} **9999^t {acl
> action_modeswitch build debug doc edd extras +firmware-loader floppy
> gudev hwdb introspection keymap +kmod +openrc +rule_generator selinux
> static-libs test}
> Installed versions: 200^t{tbz2}(18:30:31
> 29.03.2013)(firmware-loader gudev hwdb keymap kmod openrc -acl -doc
> -introspection -selinux -static-libs)
>
> I did keep net.eth0....Is your eth0 NIC a module (modprobed), or built in the kernel? -- Regards, Mick
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