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  1. Bug #123559
  2. Comment #11

Comment 11 for bug 123559

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Serge (serge-de-souza) wrote : Re: Network interfaces misnamed

$ ifconfig -a

eth2 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:16:D3:34:B2:88
          UP 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)
          Base address:0x2000 Memory:ee000000-ee020000

eth3 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:19:D2:07:01:21
          inet addr:192.168.118.169 Bcast:192.168.118.255 Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::219:d2ff:fe07:121/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
          RX packets:1659 errors:0 dropped:128 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:575 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:626993 (612.2 KB) TX bytes:100812 (98.4 KB)
          Interrupt:21 Memory:edf00000-edf00fff

eth2:avah Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:16:D3:34:B2:88
          inet addr:169.254.7.201 Bcast:169.254.255.255 Mask:255.255.0.0
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
          Base address:0x2000 Memory:ee000000-ee020000

irda0 Link encap:IrLAP HWaddr 00:00:00:00
          NOARP MTU:2048 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:8
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)

lo Link encap:Local Loopback
          inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0
          inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
          UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1
          RX packets:171 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:171 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:10184 (9.9 KB) TX bytes:10184 (9.9 KB

$ cat /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules
# PCI device 0x8086:0x1010 (e1000)
SUBSYSTEM=="net", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTRS{address}=="00:0d:60:1a:58:ca", NAME="eth0"

# PCI device 0x8086:0x1010 (e1000)
SUBSYSTEM=="net", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTRS{address}=="00:0d:60:1a:58:cb", NAME="eth1"

# PCI device 0x8086:0x109a (e1000)
SUBSYSTEM=="net", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTRS{address}=="00:16:d3:34:b2:88", NAME="eth2"

# PCI device 0x8086:0x4227 (ipw3945)
SUBSYSTEM=="net", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTRS{address}=="00:19:d2:07:01:21", NAME="eth3"

There is not /etc/mactab file