Hi Niall

Thanks for that list of things to check for.  Once I see the behaviour
again, which is a matter of time, I'll get back to you.

Niall wrote:

> OK - a further question then (just for my own curiosity). I guess you
> read my comment about /etc/iftab ?  Do you still have a box where
> this is going on (one of those mentioned above, perhaps ?) i.e. boot
> messages who eth0 identified but when the box is up, you have instead
> eth1? If so, can you do this:
>
> ip link show eth1|grep link
>
> which will show the MAC address (6 nexadecimal bytes separated by : )
> of the interface just after the words link/ether e.g. H:I:J:K:L:M
>
> Then do   cat /etc/iftab  which will show the MAC address it thinks
> eth0 has after the words
> eth0 mac  e.g.
>
> eth0 mac U:V:W:X:Y:Z
>
>
> I'm guessing that H:I:J:K:L:M and U:V:W:X:Y:Z  will NOT be the same,
> and this is the cause of the problem. Now how this discrepancy comes
> about is another question   :-)
>

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