la, 2008-03-15 kello 13:35 +0000, Timothy Murphy kirjoitti: > Antti J. Huhtala wrote: > > > The GUI approach is to go to System->Administration->Network and edit > > the nicknames of NICs. In my case I changed "eth0.bak" to "lan" and > > "eth1.bak" to "wan" because my eth0 card is connected to local network > > and eth1 card to the Internet. > > As a matter of interest, where did you read that you could make > changes like this? Absolutely nowhere. Realizing I had lost network connections right after updating the kernel and rebooting I went to System->Admin->Network to see what was wrong. The eth1 interface was passive and to my relief it could be activated by just taking it into use. After a couple of reboots a couple of days later I started to wonder why I needed to activate the card each time I rebooted, and started looking at details at graphical boot. The box didn't even try to activate eth1 connection and naturally I wondered why. > Or was it just by experiment? > Yes. Noting that the GUI window stated my eth1 nickname was eth1.bak although I don't remember having seen that nickname before, I just started experimenting. First nicknaming eth0 to "lan" brought eth0 connection to life at next boot, and then eth1 to "wan" brought internet connection to life at the next. Afterwards I realized there were no ifcfg-eth0 or ifcfg-eth1 files in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts. They apparently had been named to "ethx.bak" by new kernel or one of the updated packages with it. Antti
