thomas62186218@xxxxxxx wrote: > I am running Fedora 8 32-bit with no updates (fresh install) on a > server with a Tyan S5380 motherboard with the latest 2.00 BIOS. This > motherboard has two Intel GbE ports on the motherboard. > > Oddly, when I type ifconfig -a, these GbE ports appear as eth10 and > eth11. There is no eth0. I've been around Linux for a few years and > have never seen anything like this, so I'm stumped. Why would it not > map these GbE ports as eth0 and eth1, as expected? > > [root@localhost ~]# ifconfig -a > eth10 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:E0:81:79:C9:51 > inet addr:192.168.1.2 Bcast:192.168.1.255 Mask:255.255.255.0 > inet6 addr: fe80::2e0:81ff:fe79:c951/64 Scope:Link > UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > RX packets:2756 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:1732 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 > RX bytes:3781521 (3.6 MiB) TX bytes:132139 (129.0 KiB) > Base address:0x2000 Memory:d8020000-d8040000 > > eth11 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:E0:81:79:C9:50 > BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1 > RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 > RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b) > Base address:0x2020 Memory:d8060000-d8080000 > > lo Link encap:Local Loopback > inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0 > inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host > UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1 > RX packets:3066 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0 > TX packets:3066 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0 > collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 > RX bytes:2968932 (2.8 MiB) TX bytes:2968932 (2.8 MiB) > > > > Any ideas on this? In addition to the entries in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth? and /etc/modprobe.conf mentioned by others, I think udev can affect the naming of interfaces, as determined eg on my system by the entries in /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules . -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland
