eth0 missing - Dapper counts from eth1 to eth3

[ben darby]

* Mario Ohnewald (mario at bortal.de) wrote:
> any idea why Dapper calles the first ethernet device eth1 instead of
> eth0?
> 
> #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

you have a few NICs there have you removed or changed any since your
upgrade? if so and you still have it's MAC address set in /etc/iftab for
eth0 then any new cards will default to the first available device above
that.

-- 
ben darby <ben at cvrse.com>