Re: [BUG] ethX misnumbered and one missing in mii-tool

[Andrei Popa]

On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 12:35 -0400, Lennart Sorensen wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 30, 2007 at 10:42:23AM +0300, Andrei Popa wrote:
> > ethtool reports the same
> 
> Is udev running and having fun renumbering interfaces as they are being
> detected in order to keep "consistent" interface names?

yes, it's udevs fault:

zeus rules.d # cat 70-persistent-net.rules
# This file was automatically generated by the /lib/udev/write_net_rules
# program, probably run by the persistent-net-generator.rules rules
file.
#
# You can modify it, as long as you keep each rule on a single line.

# PCI device 0x8086:0x1096 (e1000)
SUBSYSTEM=="net", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTRS{address}=="00:15:17:17:b7:55",
NAME="eth1"

# PCI device 0x8086:0x1026 (e1000)
SUBSYSTEM=="net", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTRS{address}=="00:0e:0c:ba:a8:50",
NAME="eth2"

# PCI device 0x8086:0x1096 (e1000)
SUBSYSTEM=="net", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTRS{address}=="00:15:17:17:b7:54",
NAME="eth0"

# PCI device 0x8086:0x1027 (e1000)
SUBSYSTEM=="net", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTRS{address}=="00:0e:0c:5f:84:84",
NAME="eth3"

# PCI device 0x1148:0x4320 (skge)
SUBSYSTEM=="net", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTRS{address}=="00:0c:46:46:7c:7f",
NAME="eth4"

# PCI device 0x8086:0x105e (e1000)
SUBSYSTEM=="net", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTRS{address}=="00:15:17:21:0c:09",
NAME="eth5"

# PCI device 0x8086:0x105e (e1000)
SUBSYSTEM=="net", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTRS{address}=="00:15:17:21:0c:08",
NAME="eth6"

# PCI device 0x8086:0x1096 (e1000)
SUBSYSTEM=="net", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTRS{address}=="00:15:17:17:b7:69",
NAME="eth7"

# PCI device 0x8086:0x1096 (e1000)
SUBSYSTEM=="net", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTRS{address}=="00:15:17:17:b7:68",
NAME="eth8"

thanks for pointing this out.

> 
> --
> Len Sorensen

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