On Mon, 4 Dec 2006, Jake Angulo wrote:
Guys, This problem is blowing me away, i really wonder if somebody else has experienced this. No errors at all! But what is strange is the behavior of my ethernet ports. OS: FC5 i386 kernel-smp-2.6.18-1.2200.fc5.i686.rpm Machine: Dell Poweredge w/ 2 broadcom gb ethernet, and 2 intel 10/100 ethernet. So basically, i have: eth0, eth1, eth2, eth3 What happens is that for every random "n" times i reboot my machine, my network interface assignments (eth0, eth1, eth2, eth3) seem to be be randomly interchanged! ie: eth0 before reboot, becomes eth3 or eth1 after reboot, and so on! At first i thought one port was defective, but then i realized what was happening when i tried to physically move the UTP cable from one port to another, and miraculously i can now ping what used to be my logical port, magically transferred to another physical port! [...] Pls help! Any suggestions, or thoughts, or links to solutions would be very highly appreciated.
What version of initscripts? The latest for FC5 is initscripts-8.31.6-1.i386.rpm. Between the original release and this one, there was a fix included for this issue.
BTW, device naming bugs showed up in FC6 as well. initscripts-8.45.7-1 in updates-testing is supposed to fix them.
Thanks! Jake
-- Matthew Saltzman Clemson University Math Sciences mjs AT clemson DOT edu http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs
