Re: NICs trading places ?

Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@pobox.com)
Fri, 28 Mar 2003 17:14:46 -0500

On Fri, Mar 28, 2003 at 10:10:37PM +0000, Dave Jones wrote:
> I just upgraded a box with 2 NICs in it to 2.5.66, and found
> that what was eth0 in 2.4 is now eth1, and vice versa.
> Is this phenomenon intentional ? documented ?
> What caused it to do this ?

That's a bug that no one has tracked down yet.

Jamal reported it, too.

ethX numbering shouldn't be changing without a good reason...

Jeff

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/