Re: NICs trading places ?

From: Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@pobox.com)
Date: Fri Mar 28 2003 - 17:14:46 EST


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

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