Re: Strange ethN numbering problem.

2007-01-09 Thread John Clark
Andrey Borzenkov schrieb: John Clark wrote: Then quite likely it remembered lower numbers for "old" interfaces and starts renaming with next available. The kernel is 2.6.19.1 the at-that-moment current linux kernel. What should I look for in terms of interface renaming. I guess

Re: Strange ethN numbering problem.

2007-01-08 Thread Andrey Borzenkov
John Clark wrote: > Bernd Eckenfels schrieb: >> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: >> >>> However, when the system comes up and attempt to do an ifconfig, the >>> 'ethN' numbers >>> have changed to a some what intermengled seriese starting with eth6... >>> eth10. >>> >> >> maybe a s

Re: Strange ethN numbering problem.

2007-01-08 Thread John Clark
Bernd Eckenfels schrieb: In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: However, when the system comes up and attempt to do an ifconfig, the 'ethN' numbers have changed to a some what intermengled seriese starting with eth6... eth10. maybe a system startup script is renaming them (in order

Re: Strange ethN numbering problem.

2007-01-08 Thread Bernd Eckenfels
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > However, when the system comes up and attempt to do an ifconfig, the > 'ethN' numbers > have changed to a some what intermengled seriese starting with eth6... > eth10. maybe a system startup script is renaming them (in order to give them well known num

Strange ethN numbering problem.

2007-01-08 Thread John Clark
On a system which has one Intel Ethernet 1 Gb interface, and 4 'Marvel', interfaces, during kernel initialization the interfaces indicate they have 'normal' ethernet ethN names, ie, eth0, eth1, eth2, eth3, eth4, eth5 are reported from the 'dmesg' output. However, when the system comes up and at