Ah, you are right!  I must have looked at a sles 10 server!
Glad it was useful, though!

Marcy 
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From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ron 
Foster at Baldor-IS
Sent: Thursday, February 09, 2012 2:52 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] Anyone lose network connectivity during upgrade to 
SLES11 SP1

Marcy,

Thanks for the info.

It appears that on SLES11SP1 the name of the file changed to 

70-persistent-net.rules

Thanks for giving the information on where the rules files are.

Ron
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From: Linux on 390 Port [[email protected]] On Behalf Of Marcy Cortes 
[[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, February 03, 2012 9:36 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Anyone lose network connectivity during upgrade to SLES11 SP1

So you can modify /etc/udev/rules.d/30-net_persistent_names.rules

For the servers we have with more than 1 interface, it contains this:

SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", ENV{PHYSDEVPATH}=="*0.0.3000", 
IMPORT="/lib/udev/rename_netiface %k eth0"
SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", ENV{PHYSDEVPATH}=="*0.0.4000", 
IMPORT="/lib/udev/rename_netiface %k eth1"


That file refers you to 
/usr/share/doc/packages/sysconfig/README.Persistent_Interface_Names for more 
info



Marcy

-----Original Message-----
From: Linux on 390 Port [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ron 
Foster at Baldor-IS
Sent: Friday, February 03, 2012 7:13 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [LINUX-390] Anyone lose network connectivity during upgrade to 
SLES11 SP1

Tobias,

I will have to further testing, but I think you have come up with the cause of 
our problem.  I am just going to have to figure out the best way to fix it.

Here is the problem:

1. Almost all of our systems have more than one network interface.
2. So in order to avoid an error message, we have to modify our default route 
to include the interface.
In order to keep that interface name from changing, we used the SLES10 version 
of persistent interface names.  In other words, our default route looks like 
this:
default 10.80.200.1 - qeth-bus-ccw-0.0.0700
3. You may ask why we used qeth-bus-ccw-0.0.0700 instead of the short interface 
name eth0.  The reason why is that in our experience, the short interface names
have this habit of changing.  We would come in some Saturday night, take all 
the Linux systems down, apply some z/vm maintenance, and then bring up our Linux
systems.  At that point, some number of our Linux systems no longer 
communicated with the outside world.  I finally got tired of that and changed 
all the default
routes to use the long names.
4. You might say that that problem is fixed and does not happen anymore.  On 
this system I am upgrading the interface we want to use for communication
to the outside world is eth4.  I start out the upgrade, and by the time I get 
to the second part of the upgrade, that is the part where I lose network
connectivity.  The interface name has changed to eth0 and it looks like SLES11 
SP1 is no longer honoring the long interface name, so this Linux system
cannot communicate with the outside world during the second part of the upgrade.

I suppose my next step is to put the SLES10 SP4 system back, and change the 
default route to use eth4 and see if when the upgrade process changes the 
interface
name, it also changes the default route.

Does anyone know where some documentation that documents this behavior?

Thanks,
Ron

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From: Linux on 390 Port [[email protected]] On Behalf Of Tobias Doerkes 
[[email protected]]
Sent: Friday, February 03, 2012 2:03 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Anyone lose network connectivity during upgrade to SLES11 SP1

Hi,

what about routing? Is it possible that the default route does point to an 
inactive interface?

Kind regards,
Tobias.

PS: Sorry i forgot the subject.

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