[CentOS] weird network interface name

Tue Aug 1 23:07:50 UTC 2006
Mark Quitoriano <markquitoriano at gmail.com>

hmmm... it still show devXXXX but when ir estart the server it gets the
right ip. but how come it still shows the dev10671 and not eth1.


dev10671  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: xxxxxxxxxxxxxx Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:1845 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:1 frame:0
          TX packets:1169 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:2267861 (2.1 MiB)  TX bytes:76680 (74.8 KiB)
          Interrupt:11 Base address:0xdf00


On 8/1/06, William L. Maltby <BillsCentOS at triad.rr.com> wrote:
>
> 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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