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
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