Colin Guthrie wrote:
> Michael Braun wrote:
>> I've got the same problem. I'm at pan10 at the moment. I've got an
>> Thinkpad T61 with Bluetooth integrated. So there should be something
>> that generates at every service restart a new device. Is there
>> someone else who has the same problem? Is there an open ticket for
>> this issue?
>
> I've got the same problem yeah. I figured that as I'd seen it
> discussed here, someone would have dealt with it. I was at 14 but I
> just did:
>
> rm /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-pan*
>
> Which will reset me to 0 ;)
>
> Col
>
I have the same problem as well but I am up to 38. I have found that
these are created by the network service at boot and if the bluetooth
service is active it creates, in my case, a pan38 "alias" on eth0 in the
network configuration. If the bluetooth service is not active panx does
not get created. The other thing I find annoying is that when these
messages are produced, again in my case, it starts at /dev/pan0 and
continues all the way to /dev/pan38 before it gives up. I found this
situation with network when recovering from a cooker update causing the
usual dns resolution failure because it knocked out my fix for the issue
(I renamed resolvconf to ensure it was executed before network).

regards,
Steve