Re: [SLE] eth0 and eth1 trading places on every boot.

From: Stan Glasoe (SRGlasoe_at_comcast.net)
Date: 04/28/05

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Date: Thu, 28 Apr 2005 10:08:52 -0500

    On Thursday 28 April 2005 9:40 am, Michael W Cocke wrote:
    > Ok - THIS is a bug in 9.3, thru and thru.
    Not a bug. What you need to setup is known as 'persistent name' and is not
    SUSE specific. This happens in other distros also.

    > Practically every time my system boots (not often, but still) eth0 and
    > eth1 exchange their hardware assignments. Since one is connected to
    > the internet and the other to my intranet, this is a problem!
    >
    > After talking to some people on another list, I hear that SuSE knew
    > about this during the beta and didn't fix it! Didn't they think
    > anyone would want to run a firewall on 9.3?
    If you check the list archives you'll find this has been known for far
    longer than that. I've changed my system even though it hasn't exhibited
    this behavior but I don't want it to either.
    >
    > I've got part of a workaround (Thanks John Sivak)
    Search the archives for 'persistent name' or PERSISTENT_NAME and you'll get
    the answer: add it to /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-eth-id-[mac address] and
    re-do any firewall info that relies on them, then restart network or
    reboot. DO NOT name them eth0, eth1, etc because it will NOT work. Call
    them external, internal, internet, intranet, fred, wilma, whatever.

    > Mike-

    Stan 

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