[CentOS] ethernet card name eth1 randomly changes

Mon Jul 31 19:42:51 UTC 2006
Mark Schoonover <schoon at amgt.com>

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> im having problems installing my nic card. my eth1 keep on renaming
> randomly to dev****. whenever i change the ifcfg network scripts at
> sysconfig and reboot, the nic tends to renamed randomly. i have tried
> changing this thing from davicom to 3com nic's.
> 
> dev6278   Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:01:02:91:01:6D
>            BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
>            RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
>            TX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
>            collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
>            RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)
>            Interrupt:11 Base address:0xdf00
> 
> any one experienced this already? suggestions are highly recommended.
> thanks guys!
> 

You're probably missing the DEVICE=eth1 in ifcfg-eth1...

HTH

Mark