eth0 missing - Dapper counts from eth1 to eth3

[Mario Ohnewald]

Hello List,

any idea why Dapper calles the first ethernet device eth1 instead of
eth0?


lspci:

0000:00:00.0 Host bridge: Cyrix Corporation PCI Master
0000:00:06.0 Ethernet controller: National Semiconductor Corporation
DP83815 (MacPhyter) Ethernet Controller
0000:00:07.0 Ethernet controller: National Semiconductor Corporation
DP83815 (MacPhyter) Ethernet Controller
0000:00:08.0 Ethernet controller: National Semiconductor Corporation
DP83815 (MacPhyter) Ethernet Controller
0000:00:12.0 ISA bridge: National Semiconductor Corporation SC1100
Bridge
0000:00:12.1 Bridge: National Semiconductor Corporation SC1100 SMI
0000:00:12.2 IDE interface: National Semiconductor Corporation SCx200
IDE (rev 01)
0000:00:12.5 Bridge: National Semiconductor Corporation SC1100 XBus
0000:00:13.0 USB Controller: Compaq Computer Corporation ZFMicro Chipset
USB (rev 08)


#ifconfig -a
eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:00:24:C6:12:E1
          inet addr:192.168.1.254  Bcast:192.168.1.255
Mask:255.255.255.0
          inet6 addr: fe80::200:24ff:fec6:12e1/64 Scope:Link
          UP BROADCAST MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:72 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000
          RX bytes:7100 (6.9 KiB)  TX bytes:1050 (1.0 KiB)
          Interrupt:10 Base address:0x6000

eth2      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:00:24:C6:12:E2
          inet addr:192.168.33.254  Bcast:192.168.33.255
Mask:255.255.255.0
          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)
          Interrupt:10 Base address:0x8000

eth3      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:00:24:C6:12:E0
          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:10 Base address:0x8000

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:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:6 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:0
          RX bytes:300 (300.0 b)  TX bytes:300 (300.0 b)

sit0      Link encap:IPv6-in-IPv4
          NOARP  MTU:1480  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:0
          RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)  TX bytes:0 (0.0 b)


Cheers, Mario