Re: origin of __tmp1930643048 network device name: kernel-space oruser-space

[Jan Engelhardt]

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...

Fedora says it all.
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