On Thu, Jan 1, 2009 at 6:19 PM, Bill Davidsen <davidsen@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Nat Gross wrote: >> >> On Mon, Nov 3, 2008 at 3:09 PM, Phil Meyer <pmeyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> >> wrote: >>> >>> Jim wrote: >>>> >>>> FC8, KDE >>>> What is changing the Network settings from eth0 to eth1 ? >>>> >>>> Even if you go into /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 and setup >>>> as >>>> eth0, and reboot box,it will change settings to eth1. >>>> >>>> And it is causing a unstable network. >>>> >>>> This box only has one ethernet card in it. >>>> >>> >>> Now days, when Fedora detects a different NIC from one it knew (right or >>> wrong), it creates a new entry in: >>> /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules >>> >>> This is why you get messages in dmesg and at bootup that eth0 is being >>> 'moved' to eth1. >>> >>> It is reasonably safe to remove this file, plus >>> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth? and reboot. >>> >>> If you are just doing DHCP, then udev will recreate the file, put the >>> correct NIC into it, and set up a generic ifcfg-eth0 script. >>> >>> Good luck! >>> >> Thanks for this post, it helped me a bit, but I still have nameserver >> problem. >> Yesterday my [only]nic in a 32 bit fc8 box blew. When I replaced it, >> it insisted to be eth1 and gave me eth0 errors when booting. I did an >> ifconfig 192.168.... and had eth1 up and running. > > You did change the MAC address in the config, to reflect the change right? > Otherwise eth0 will go to the old MAC address even if not present, and the > next NIC found will be eth1, eth2, etc. In the network gui, there is a "probe" button. I used that and saw it magically change the MAC. nat -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
