From: "Geo." 

and you think the registry is nasty?

Geo.

"Adam" <""4thwormcastfromthemolehill\"{at}the
field.near the bridge"> wrote in message
news:45e49b79{at}w3.nls.net...
> This could apply to the redhat family as well (Novell/Suse, Red Hat etc).
>
> I will post this to the relevant people in Mandriva.
>
> A motherboard went south taking an old Athlon 1.6 with it.
>
> Found a sempron board which could take old std ddr ram & had 2 ide slots
> & installed.
>
> Quite staggering that linux took to a very different system with only
> one minor flaw. Video, devices etc just worked. Very cool.
>
> However...
>
>
> Discovered I had eth4 & eth5 in place of eth0 & eth1. Bit of a problem
> with the firewall which used eth devices as part of it's filtering.
>
> Took one of the cards out to "clear the system", rebooted, still with
> eth5 but correctly eth4 had disappeared. Put card back in & eth4
> reappeared.
>
>
> No biggie...crank up the network manager gui thingy &....
>
> No way to set the eth name (i.e. set eth4 to eth0, eth5 to eth1 etc.
>
> Found then that there was some secret recipe for attaching a eth device
> name to all the relevant details (inc the mac address).
>
> /etc/udev/rules.d/62-net.rules
>
> # udev persistent rules for net subsystem
> # Generated by Mandriva udev rules
> # See /etc/udev/rules.d/62-create_persistent.rules
>
> SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add",
ENV{INTERFACE}!="*.*",
> SYSFS{address}=="00:0e:2e:b8:c3:ce", NAME="eth0",
> ENV{MDV_CONFIGURED}="yes"
> SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add",
ENV{INTERFACE}!="*.*",
> SYSFS{address}=="00:18:f3:68:d1:37", NAME="eth1",
> ENV{MDV_CONFIGURED}="yes"
>
>
> The 00:0e:2e:b8:c3:ce number in SYSFS{address}=="00:0e:2e:b8:c3:ce" is
> the mac address.
>
> Set the NAME="eth0" to the required value (in this case
"eth0").
>
> Remove all old cruft (if you've had a number of nic'es then each one is
> left at present).
>
> Oh but there's more. With the above the networking might still crash due
> to modprobe settings:
>
> In: /etc/modprobe.conf
>
> Check the relevant eth alias points to the right device:
>
> alias eth1 via-rhine
> alias eth0 8139too
>
> Next....
>
> in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/
>
> Check to make sure there is no excess of:
>
> ifcfg-ethx files (e.g. you might have an excess ifcfg-eth4 file ).
>
> That excess device may show up in the boot process anyway (it will fail
> upon if-up)
>
> Make sure the settings for the eth devices you will be using are set
> correctly.
>
> If Mandriva is to use these layers upon layers then fine so long as the
> gui works & allows something as simple as setting a eth name against a
> piece of hw.
>
> Because you may have something as simple as :
>
> NETWORKING=yes
> GATEWAY=192.168.1.100
> GATEWAYDEV=eth1
> HOSTNAME=www.softfab.co.uk
>
> Note the GATEWAYDEV=eth1
>
> & expect to poke the traffic through a given (named) piece of h/w.
>
> Adam

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