Networking messed up in Dapper

[Scott James Remnant]

On 2/23/06, Nicolas Kassis <nic.kassis at gmail.com> wrote:

> Related to networking being messed up in dapper, I reported a bug I have
> been experiencing bug 32570. My two prism54 cards (one internal and the
> other pcmcia) receive the same eth0 name and cause a clash. Anyone else
> has this issue ?
>
This means that you've named one of the cards "eth0" in /etc/iftab,
but not the other -- and the other got allocated that name by the
kernel.

The easiest way to fix this is just to name the other card with a line like:

  eth1 mac xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx

in /etc/iftab, where the xx's get replaced by the MAC address of that card.


The _clashed moniker is just a temporary one, by the way -- it's there
so I can clearly see the renaming working.  By Beta release that will
change to just using the next free number, so the card would be "eth1"
(assuming you hadn't allocated that in /etc/iftab).