Re: Upgrading to 2.6.5 switched my physical network interface names

From: Marc Wilson (msw_at_cox.net)
Date: 05/04/04

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    On Mon, May 03, 2004 at 11:23:50PM +0200, John van Spaandonk wrote:
    > In Linux 2.6.[45] assignment of eth0,1 is reversed, so now my interface to
    > the cable modem has eth1 (this was eth0 in 2.4.x).
    > Naturally the network does not work anymore.

    So swap the cables. The 2.6 kernel inverts the PCI scan order.

    > I believe that in 2.4 the 8139too driver allocates ethx on the MAC address
    > of the ethernet cards, lowest MAC address gets eth0 and so on.

    No, the kernel does it in the order the cards are enumerated on the PCI
    bus. The MAC doesn't have anything to do with it.

    Either swap the cables, or swap the slots the cards are in. 

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