Just done some updates on one of my 2008.1 machines. It's fully up to
date as of about 10 mins ago.

It seems that harddrake is a bit overzealous in renaming my network
interfaces.

I happily have eth0, eth1 and eth2 defined.

I have them listed as aliases in /etc/modprobe.conf:
alias eth0 8139too
alias eth1 r8169
alias eth2 forcedeth

I have them listed correctly in /etc/iftab and I have the HWADDR set in
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth*

Yet whenever I reboot, harddrake shuffles them all around. It basically
adds one to each if number leaving me with eth1, eth2 and eth3. The
HWADDR in the /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts is not updated and this
whole thing generally messes everything up (not to mention that ethX is
mentioned in some other config files, e.g. shorewall, samba etc.).


I see the following in the logs:
May 29 10:04:48 marley service_harddrake[2997]: ### Program is starting ###
May 29 10:04:49 marley service_harddrake[2997]: running: dmidecode
May 29 10:04:49 marley service_harddrake[2997]: modified file
/etc/sysconfig/harddrake2/kernel
May 29 10:04:49 marley service_harddrake[2997]: removed ETHERNET:
Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.|RTL-8029(AS)
May 29 10:04:49 marley service_harddrake[2997]: removing all aliases
that match "^(wlan|eth)[0-9]*$"
May 29 10:04:50 marley service_harddrake[2997]: adding alias eth3 to
forcedeth
May 29 10:04:50 marley service_harddrake[2997]: adding alias eth2 to r8169
May 29 10:04:50 marley service_harddrake[2997]: adding alias eth1 to 8139too
May 29 10:04:50 marley service_harddrake[2997]: modified file
/etc/modprobe.conf
May 29 10:04:50 marley service_harddrake[2997]: to put in
/etc/modprobe.preload dpc7146, nvidia_agp
May 29 10:04:50 marley service_harddrake[2997]: modified file
/etc/modprobe.preload


When harddrake is started at boot, it does say "FAILED" which is
interesting.


So, I've disabled harddrake for now, but the question is..... why is it
renaming things in the first place?? Please ask for more info if you
want/need it.

Cheers

Col

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|    Colin Guthrie     |
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