network interfaces exchanged

Henning Glawe glaweh at physik.fu-berlin.de
Fri May 19 11:40:40 CEST 2006


On Fri, May 19, 2006 at 10:49:11AM +0200, Andreas Sindermann wrote:
> during the fai-installation the nfsroot-kernel sees the two network
> interfaces eth0 and eth1 in a different order than the kernel used
> during normal operation. The effect is that when booting from harddisk
> no network is available. How does one care about this usually?

use something like ifrename or nameif to rename the interfaces by looking at
the MAC address. In testing/unstable, this functionality is provided by
udev.

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henning



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