[Server-devel] Weird Device Recognition in 163

James Cameron quozl at laptop.org
Mon Jun 2 07:16:33 EDT 2008


On Mon, Jun 02, 2008 at 08:22:40PM +1000, Martin Langhoff wrote:
> That makes bit more sense. A bad pci connection... but I'm not sure
> why it didn't come up with the right ip addr. I do wonder whether the
> fedora tools have anything to automagically define a "device affinity"
> once it's seen a given mac address (to avoid logical device swaps if
> you reorder your NICs on a PCI bus). But that's a long shot.

Hmm.  Eyes sleepy, but
/etc/udev/rules.d/75-persistent-net-generator.rules if present may
activate /lib/udev/write_net_rules (script) which may write file
/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules ... so if this is what is
happening there will be evidence.

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