Re: Strange ethN numbering problem.
Andrey Borzenkov schrieb: John Clark wrote: Then quite likely it remembered lower numbers for "old" interfaces and starts renaming with next available. The kernel is 2.6.19.1 the at-that-moment current linux kernel. What should I look for in terms of interface renaming. I guess in udev rules; look also if you have /etc/iftab. The best you can do is asking in lists/groups dedicated to your distribution. -andrey Thanks. It was 'udev rules' that were messing things up, left over from using the disk on a different piece of hardware. To date I've been making only 'embedded' systems using busybox, and other similarly limited root environments and never really dealt with a pretty much full up distribution outside of my host development systems. Hence, never really had gotten in to 'udev'. I've been using devfs mostly till recently... However, in anticipation of large capacity flash systems, I've moved to making my embedded systems almost as full up as most host systems. Is there some startup command line option for the linux kernel to force the 'udev' management program to basically 'ignore and refresh' device names? John Clark. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Re: Strange ethN numbering problem.
Andrey Borzenkov schrieb: John Clark wrote: Then quite likely it remembered lower numbers for old interfaces and starts renaming with next available. The kernel is 2.6.19.1 the at-that-moment current linux kernel. What should I look for in terms of interface renaming. I guess in udev rules; look also if you have /etc/iftab. The best you can do is asking in lists/groups dedicated to your distribution. -andrey Thanks. It was 'udev rules' that were messing things up, left over from using the disk on a different piece of hardware. To date I've been making only 'embedded' systems using busybox, and other similarly limited root environments and never really dealt with a pretty much full up distribution outside of my host development systems. Hence, never really had gotten in to 'udev'. I've been using devfs mostly till recently... However, in anticipation of large capacity flash systems, I've moved to making my embedded systems almost as full up as most host systems. Is there some startup command line option for the linux kernel to force the 'udev' management program to basically 'ignore and refresh' device names? John Clark. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Re: Strange ethN numbering problem.
John Clark wrote: > Bernd Eckenfels schrieb: >> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: >> >>> However, when the system comes up and attempt to do an ifconfig, the >>> 'ethN' numbers >>> have changed to a some what intermengled seriese starting with eth6... >>> eth10. >>> >> >> maybe a system startup script is renaming them (in order to give them >> well known numbers)? >> >> What kind of distribution is that? is this a new problem? Have a look in >> /etc/mactab. > > This is not a 'new' distribtution. In fact, the disk was used for a > previous hardware box, of the same > manufacturer and allegedly the same cpu mother board. > Then quite likely it remembered lower numbers for "old" interfaces and starts renaming with next available. > The kernel is 2.6.19.1 the at-that-moment current linux kernel. > > What should I look for in terms of interface renaming. I guess in udev rules; look also if you have /etc/iftab. The best you can do is asking in lists/groups dedicated to your distribution. -andrey > What is also sort > of strange is that they all > have the same 'mac' address vendor unique id... even though two > interfaces are for an Intel > ethernet chip, and the othe 4 are from the Marvel chip. > > Thanks > John Clark - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Re: Strange ethN numbering problem.
Bernd Eckenfels schrieb: In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: However, when the system comes up and attempt to do an ifconfig, the 'ethN' numbers have changed to a some what intermengled seriese starting with eth6... eth10. maybe a system startup script is renaming them (in order to give them well known numbers)? What kind of distribution is that? is this a new problem? Have a look in /etc/mactab. This is not a 'new' distribtution. In fact, the disk was used for a previous hardware box, of the same manufacturer and allegedly the same cpu mother board. The kernel is 2.6.19.1 the at-that-moment current linux kernel. What should I look for in terms of interface renaming. What is also sort of strange is that they all have the same 'mac' address vendor unique id... even though two interfaces are for an Intel ethernet chip, and the othe 4 are from the Marvel chip. Thanks John Clark - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Re: Strange ethN numbering problem.
In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you wrote: > However, when the system comes up and attempt to do an ifconfig, the > 'ethN' numbers > have changed to a some what intermengled seriese starting with eth6... > eth10. maybe a system startup script is renaming them (in order to give them well known numbers)? What kind of distribution is that? is this a new problem? Have a look in /etc/mactab. Gruss Bernd - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Strange ethN numbering problem.
On a system which has one Intel Ethernet 1 Gb interface, and 4 'Marvel', interfaces, during kernel initialization the interfaces indicate they have 'normal' ethernet ethN names, ie, eth0, eth1, eth2, eth3, eth4, eth5 are reported from the 'dmesg' output. However, when the system comes up and attempt to do an ifconfig, the 'ethN' numbers have changed to a some what intermengled seriese starting with eth6... eth10. I have never seen this sort of problem before, and so I have no clue what is causing the later changes in the numbering scheme. Does anyone have any idea where to look. Thanks John Clark - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Strange ethN numbering problem.
On a system which has one Intel Ethernet 1 Gb interface, and 4 'Marvel', interfaces, during kernel initialization the interfaces indicate they have 'normal' ethernet ethN names, ie, eth0, eth1, eth2, eth3, eth4, eth5 are reported from the 'dmesg' output. However, when the system comes up and attempt to do an ifconfig, the 'ethN' numbers have changed to a some what intermengled seriese starting with eth6... eth10. I have never seen this sort of problem before, and so I have no clue what is causing the later changes in the numbering scheme. Does anyone have any idea where to look. Thanks John Clark - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Re: Strange ethN numbering problem.
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: However, when the system comes up and attempt to do an ifconfig, the 'ethN' numbers have changed to a some what intermengled seriese starting with eth6... eth10. maybe a system startup script is renaming them (in order to give them well known numbers)? What kind of distribution is that? is this a new problem? Have a look in /etc/mactab. Gruss Bernd - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Re: Strange ethN numbering problem.
Bernd Eckenfels schrieb: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: However, when the system comes up and attempt to do an ifconfig, the 'ethN' numbers have changed to a some what intermengled seriese starting with eth6... eth10. maybe a system startup script is renaming them (in order to give them well known numbers)? What kind of distribution is that? is this a new problem? Have a look in /etc/mactab. This is not a 'new' distribtution. In fact, the disk was used for a previous hardware box, of the same manufacturer and allegedly the same cpu mother board. The kernel is 2.6.19.1 the at-that-moment current linux kernel. What should I look for in terms of interface renaming. What is also sort of strange is that they all have the same 'mac' address vendor unique id... even though two interfaces are for an Intel ethernet chip, and the othe 4 are from the Marvel chip. Thanks John Clark - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
Re: Strange ethN numbering problem.
John Clark wrote: Bernd Eckenfels schrieb: In article [EMAIL PROTECTED] you wrote: However, when the system comes up and attempt to do an ifconfig, the 'ethN' numbers have changed to a some what intermengled seriese starting with eth6... eth10. maybe a system startup script is renaming them (in order to give them well known numbers)? What kind of distribution is that? is this a new problem? Have a look in /etc/mactab. This is not a 'new' distribtution. In fact, the disk was used for a previous hardware box, of the same manufacturer and allegedly the same cpu mother board. Then quite likely it remembered lower numbers for old interfaces and starts renaming with next available. The kernel is 2.6.19.1 the at-that-moment current linux kernel. What should I look for in terms of interface renaming. I guess in udev rules; look also if you have /etc/iftab. The best you can do is asking in lists/groups dedicated to your distribution. -andrey What is also sort of strange is that they all have the same 'mac' address vendor unique id... even though two interfaces are for an Intel ethernet chip, and the othe 4 are from the Marvel chip. Thanks John Clark - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
