[Voyage-linux] Alix/Voyage ethernet behavior

[Dean Franks]

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Take a look at /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules

You will find a couple lines for the old ethernet adapters, just delete them
all and reboot.  You will be back to eth0 and eth1.

Dean

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> Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2011 13:38:02 -0700
> From: Mike Galusha <mikegalusha at fastmail.fm>
> Subject: [Voyage-linux] Alix/Voyage ethernet behavior
> To: voyage-linux at voyage.hk
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> I'm pretty new when it comes to using Voyage with an Alix board but I
> thought I'd share something that I experienced that perhaps someone can
> explain to me as I'm not a Linux guru and know enough to be dangerous. :)
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> A friend recently lent me his Alix box running Voyage MPD to try out and
> asked that I create a new image on my own CF card so as not to alter his
> network settings. This was not a problem and it worked as expected
> including mounting an SMB share on a Windows box where my music files
> currently live. Everything worked great and I promptly ordered up an
> Alix board and case.
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> My surprise came when I put my existing CF card in the new board and
> powered it up. Logging into the router I didn't see it getting a dhcp
> address. Thinking perhaps I'd gotten a bad board I dug through my old
> stuff and came up with a couple of 9 pin serial cables and spliced them
> together this morning to make a null modem cable so I could see if it
> was alive or dead. The good news is that it was booting up just fine but
> I noticed in the console messages that it was renaming eth0 to eth3 and
> eth1 to eth2 and when it tried to start eth0 and get a dhcp address, it
> received a device not found error since eth0 no longer existed. I was
> able to edit /etc/network/interfaces and change eth0 to eth3 and it
> happily picked up an address which I then reserved in my dhcp server.
> Everything works fine but I'm curious as why this happened.
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> My guess is that when I used the CF image on the other Alix board it
> recorded the MAC addresses of the ports and it's reassigning these so
> there is no conflict. This is a total guess as I don't know enough about
> Linux to know but it was the only thing I could think of that made sense.
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> Any thoughts would be welcome so I can further my understanding.
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> Thanks,
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> Mike G.
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