[CentOS] Eth1 problem on CentOS-6.3

[m.roth at 5-cent.us]

James B. Byrne wrote:
> On Mon, August 13, 2012 18:48, Ned Slider wrote:
>> On 13/08/12 19:50, James B. Byrne wrote:
>>> On Mon, August 13, 2012 10:37, Ned Slider wrote:
>>>
>>>> Faulty hardware maybe? Try a reboot and see if it reappears. If
>>>> it's located on a card try reseating the card (although I suspect this
>>>> is an integrated NIC on the motherboard?).
>>>>
>>>> The chipset is not necessarily the same in the second example
>>>> (different revision); RTL8111/8168B is not RTL8168d/8111d. They
>>>> probably do use the same driver but I'd need to see the
>>>> Vendor:Device ID pairing to know for sure.
>>>
>>> Eth1 is an xpci card sold by StarTech.  A system with an identical
>>> card reports this:
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> I swapped the suspect card and rebooted the host.  After some fussing
> about with udev I managed to get the new card recognized as eth1 (vice
> eth2 as udev kept insisting).

Yup. I assume you edited /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules, got
rid of the lines for the old card, and told it the new one was eth1?
>
> I will do a transfer test later today and see if it stays up.  The
> original failed in the midst of an sftp transfer.

Good luck.

       mark