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spicausis

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From: Latvia

Registered: 2009-07-05

Posts: 3

Marvell Gigabit Ethernet (skge) randomly swapping interfaces

Sometimes after rebooting my 64-bit Archlinux randomly swaps around the network interfaces on my P5B deluxe board.

I'm setting up their mac addresses in rc.conf, but I don't believe that it would be sufficient to mess up the things (and, they probably their eth0 and eth1 are assigned already anyway).

I've found the mention of this on an old, archlinux 0.8 changelog, "- network modules are put in the MODULES=() in rc.conf - again, this is done to avoid random swapping of multiple network interfaces " — would adding skge to MODULES list be sufficient? (I can't possibly imagine why that would help, though).

rc.conf:
...
MODULES=(fuse vboxnetflt)
...
# if directly connected
eth0="eth0 my.public.ip.address netmask 255.255.255.224 hw ether 00:e0:4c:25:00:00"
# if connected through router
eth1="eth1 10.10.10.10 netmask 255.255.255.0 hw ether 00:e0:4c:25:00:01"
INTERFACES=(!eth0 eth1)
gateway="default gw 10.10.10.1"
ROUTES=(gateway)
...

arkham

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From: Stockholm

Registered: 2008-10-26

Posts: 516

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Re: Marvell Gigabit Ethernet (skge) randomly swapping interfaces

http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Ude … _Each_Boot

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spicausis

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From: Latvia

Registered: 2009-07-05

Posts: 3

Re: Marvell Gigabit Ethernet (skge) randomly swapping interfaces

Aha! So it's udev messing up, and I need to tie the cards to their initial mac addresses afterall. Thank you!