[BlueOnyx:01929] Re: eth0 issues

[bluequartz at ozin.com]

To answer my own question (and then ask two more). I can achieve the rearrangement of the eth(x) interfaces doing:

  create
  /etc/udev/rules.d/10-network-devices.rules
  something like: 

  KERNEL=="eth?", SYSFS{address}=="00:11:22:00:11:22", NAME="eth0"
  KERNEL=="eth?", SYSFS{address}=="00:11:22:00:11:23", NAME="eth1"
  KERNEL=="eth?", SYSFS{address}=="00:11:22:00:11:24", NAME="eth2"

  and also change

  /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
  DEVICE=eth0
  HWADDR=00:11:22:00:11:22
  
  (also do similar for ifcfg-eth1 and ifcfg-eth2)

BUT here are my problems:

Having done this the page  System Settings / TCP/IP  now reports the wrong MAC addresses by each adapter (it still reports the original allocations not the changed ones). Can this be fixed?

And here is a bug unrelated to the above. Again on the System Settings / TCP/IP  page the SAVE button does nothing except give a javascript error (tried in IE8, Firefox and Chrome) as follows:

Webpage error details
User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 6.0; Trident/4.0; SLCC1; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; Media Center PC 5.0; InfoPath.2; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; .NET CLR 3.0.30729)
Timestamp: Thu, 6 Aug 2009 01:12:25 UTC

Message: 'value' is null or not an object
Line: 603
Char: 2
Code: 0
URI: https://192.168.100.250:81/base/network/ethernet.php


-----Original Message-----
To: blueonyx at blueonyx.it
Subject: [BlueOnyx:01927] eth0 issues

My motherboard has three NICs. One Intel 100 and two Intel 1000.

Every other boot or so I get:

e100 device eth0 does not seem to be present

I have no idea why except that when this happens eth0 does not exist and instead I notice a weird _tmp interface name.

It would be good to simply fix the issue but maybe the easy way is to ignore the first interface and instead rename eth1 to eth0 and eth2 to eth1. But how do you rearrange the binding order of the eth interfaces?

Thanks in advance

Jason