On Wed, May 24, 2006 at 11:29:44 -0300, Marcos Dione wrote:
> hi all. first of all, I'm not suscribed to this list, so please cc: me
> in the answers.
>
> so, I just installed an etch server (wanted shorewall 3.x) which will
> serve an internal net through 4 adsl lines. the problem (is not actually a
> problem, but I would like to know anyways) is that the third nic appears as
> the eth2_temp device. the relevant entries in /etc/network/interfaces are:
>
> auto arnet1
> iface arnet1 inet ppp
> provider arnet1
>
> auto eth2
> iface eth2 inet manual
>
> (the arnet1 pseudo device is the ppp link over this eth). I only run
> pppoeconfig to setup the adsl connection. I even tried rebooting the server,
> but the iface is still named so. here's the relevant output of ifconfig -a:
>
> eth2_temp Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:E0:7D:77:C0:BB
> BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
> RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
> TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
> collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
> RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
> Interrupt:169 Base address:0xdc00
>
> I tried grep'ing the whole /etc to look for a possible culprit for this
> name, but nothing relevant came up.
You probably have a misconfiguration of udev. Post the contents of the
file /etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules and we will see. The
output of "ls -l /sys/class/net/" is also important.
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Regards,
Florian
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