On Sep 7 2007 18:44, davide rossetti wrote: > >> > I'm assuming you're running some sort of Fedora/RHEL/ >> > derivative; this is what you get when you have a device that starts >> > out named ethX, but which needed to be renamed so that an already >> > configured ethX could be changed to that name. >> >> yes, it's FC6. >> >> > For the new device, either add a HWADDR in a ifcfg-ethX file for >> > that interface, add something to /etc/mactab, or add a udev rule. >> >> seems like HWADDR is incompatible with bonding.... there is some >> message using HWADDR as well as MASTER=bond0 and SLAVE=yes. > >for the records I worked-around it: >- problem seems to be the interface 'bond0', which is started first, >stops the ability to create another device named 'eth0' (WHY?) >- so I shifted all of the interface names: 0->1, 1->2,... >now it is ok. still I do not understand why bond0 seems to interfere >with eth0...
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