[Linux-HA] onboard NIC looses IP on reboot

[Daniel Bartholomew]

On Wed, 2007-07-25 at 19:04 +0200, Jan Kalcic wrote:
> > I have "plaid" around with that file quite a bit, and it really only
> > maps the eth device name to the device's MAC address. It doesn't
> > really control the device's IP address. Renaming the device(s)
> yielded
> > the same problem. As you can see from one of my other replies.
> Yes, you are right. udev doesn't control the IP address but it simply
> creates interfaces for devices. But given the errors you posted, udev
> is
> clearly changing the interfaces name and this causes the problem you
> have. Take a look at
> /usr/share/doc/packages/sysconfig/README.Persistent_Interface_Names.
> 

I used to have problems with interfaces changing names on me on reboot,
but it went away after upgrading to a newer Ubuntu version. The reason
is that recent Ubuntu versions have a file located at /etc/iftab that
assigns persistent names to network interfaces in the same way
that /etc/fstab can assign mount points to specific devices.

I don't know if this is a Debian/Ubuntu specific thing or if it is a
feature of the latest versions of udev, but it might be worth looking
into.

-- 
Daniel Bartholomew

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