Re: VIA EPIA EK: strange eth dev numbering

[Jan Engelhardt]

On Aug 2 2007 12:20, Herbert Rosmanith wrote:
>
>I see a strange numbering of ethernet devices with a VIA EPIA EK
>board. This board has two ethernet connectors, you can see it
>here: http://www.via.com.tw/en/products/mainboards/motherboards.jsp?motherboard_id=420

Maybe udev is configured to do renaming on the interfaces?

>an "ifconfig eth"0(eth1) will report:

Hence use `ip a`.

>pretty strange?! I dont think this is the correct behaviour, is it?

No, not strange at all. At least openSUSE ensures (or TRIES - there
are _really_ broken chips out there that change their MAC every boot)
that each card has the same interface name regardless of load order etc.




	Jan
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