Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: Qian Qiao <qian.qiao@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] server setting up funny interfaces
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 13:28:02
Message-Id: c3d5f3800811180527qa243b17h9e96d7ced34c8163@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-amd64] server setting up funny interfaces by Mark Haney
1 On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 13:24, Mark Haney <mhaney@××××××××××××.org> wrote:
2 > I've got a server doing something weird with it's network interfaces. It's
3 > got one NIC in it, and from the live CD it sees that NIC as ETH0.
4 >
5 > However, no matter what I do on boot from the HDD, it sees that interface as
6 > ETH1. Even though it was originally setup as ETH0. And now, on a reboot,
7 > none of the networking services starts up because the system thinks eth0
8 > does not exist.
9 >
10 > I can start eth1, but then ssh and all the other services (SSH and BIND
11 > mostly) refuse to start because they are looking for eth0.
12 >
13 > Any ideas on how to fix this?
14
15 I assume you use udev, if that's the case, take a look at
16 /etc/udev/rules.d/SOME_NUMBER-persistant-net.rules
17
18 HTH.
19
20 Joe
21
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