From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andi Kleen Subject: Re: NIC renaming does not rename /proc/sys/net/ipv4 Was: Re: NICs trading places ? Date: 29 Mar 2003 13:29:19 +0100 Sender: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com Message-ID: <1048940960.2176.86.camel@averell> References: <20030328221037.GB25846@suse.de.suse.lists.linux.kernel> <20030329121755.GA17169@outpost.ds9a.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: netdev@oss.sgi.com, Dave Jones , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Return-path: To: bert hubert In-Reply-To: <20030329121755.GA17169@outpost.ds9a.nl> Errors-to: netdev-bounce@oss.sgi.com List-Id: netdev.vger.kernel.org On Sat, 2003-03-29 at 13:17, bert hubert wrote: > On Sat, Mar 29, 2003 at 05:47:17AM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: > > Dave Jones writes: > > > > > I just upgraded a box with 2 NICs in it to 2.5.66, and found > > > that what was eth0 in 2.4 is now eth1, and vice versa. > > > Is this phenomenon intentional ? documented ? > > > > Just assign mac addresses to names and run nameif early in boot. > > A slight problem with that is that not all parts of /proc/sys get renamed > this way: Just rename at early boot before IP is set up. That is what i usually do - set up /etc/mactab and run it very early at boot. Running it later is usually flakey. e.g. it can also give confusing effects with old style named ip aliases. -Andi