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.
Alexander