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<font face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif">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. :)<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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. <br>
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Any thoughts would be welcome so I can further my understanding. <br>
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Thanks,<br>
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Mike G.<br>
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