[CentOS] weird network interface name

[William L. Maltby]

On Mon, 2006-07-31 at 20:19 +0200, Alexander Dalloz wrote:
> Mark Quitoriano schrieb:
> 
> > Hi list,
> >
> > i have a problem in one of my centos boxes. I installed CentOS 4.3. I 
> > addedd
> > additionl interface card in this server and when i execute ifconfig 
> > command
> > i see devNNN(where n is a random number). And when i restart the 
> > server the
> > NNNN always change.
> >
> >
> > dev9926   Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
> >          inet addr:xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx  Bcast:xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx  Mask:
> > xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
> >          inet6 addr: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Scope:Link
> >          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
> >          RX packets:8304 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:1 frame:0
> >          TX packets:3848 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:1
> >          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
> >          RX bytes:937839 (915.8 KiB)  TX bytes:351719 (343.4 KiB)
> >          Interrupt:11 Base address:0xdf00
> 
> Make sure you have a valid /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-<device> 
> (<device> may be eth1) and set an alias for that device in 
> /etc/modprobe.conf.

ACK! I didn't think he might not have an alias! Standard system
installation puts one in. If he is adding another NIC and it is not the
same type as what is there already, he would need to add, as you say.

> 
> Alexander
> <snip sig stuff>

-- 
Bill
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