hi guys,
the thing i'm going to talk about is known issue, i'm just wondering how
to easily solve it.
some nvidia ethernet cards report their mac addresses to the kernel in
reversed order (boot rom has them ok) - so you can boot off the network,
but don't for example get ip from dhcp server, because the hw address is
different.
now, the issue is, that the kernel says
invalid mac address detected.
switching to a random mac.
this wouldn't be that big problem, since you can assign the ip address
statically. the worse thing is, that the names of the network interfaces
change on every reboot (then number in ethX just increases by one every
time). this is caused by udev, which saves the 'old' random mac address
with its ethX name to z25_persistent-net.rules. next time, the mac
address changes and new ethX name is assigned :(
how can i solve this issue?
interesting is, that this happens only on a machine running amd64 port
(2.6.18-4 kernel, etch up to date). the same machine (we have 2 boxes
with identical hw), but with 32 bit system (2.6.18-4 kernel, etch up top
date) behaves normally - i.e., ifconfing reports the 'bad' mac address
(reversed), but the name assignment doesn't change.
thank you in advance for any hints. best regards,
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