{"id":108,"date":"2007-07-03T14:29:31","date_gmt":"2007-07-03T13:29:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/people.iola.dk\/arj\/2007\/07\/03\/even-your-daemons-can-have-usability-problems\/"},"modified":"2007-07-03T14:29:31","modified_gmt":"2007-07-03T13:29:31","slug":"even-your-daemons-can-have-usability-problems","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/people.iola.dk\/arj\/2007\/07\/03\/even-your-daemons-can-have-usability-problems\/","title":{"rendered":"Even your daemons can have usability problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today I decided to change nic in my server because the <a href=\"http:\/\/lkml.org\/lkml\/2007\/7\/2\/52\">onboard NIC wasn&#8217;t working properly<\/a>. And so again I hit the problem that udev can assigns a NIC a different ethX name than what the kernel is printing in dmesg. So one modprobes the module and gets the following output:<\/p>\n<p>e100: Intel(R) PRO\/100 Network Driver, 3.5.17-k2-NAPI<br \/>\ne100: Copyright(c) 1999-2006 Intel Corporation<br \/>\nACPI: PCI Interrupt 0000:01:07.0[A] -&gt; Link [LNKB] -&gt; GSI 10 (level, low) -&gt; IRQ 10<br \/>\ne100: eth1: e100_probe: addr 0xdcfff000, irq 10, MAC addr 00:A0:C9:E6:3E:75<\/p>\n<p>Tries to start the NIC using <em>\/etc\/init.d\/net.eth1 start<\/em> only to find that the device is not found! Luckily I had this problem before so I knew that I needed to clean up the file \/etc\/udev\/rules.d\/70-persistent-net.rules. I seriously doubt that this &#8220;feature&#8221; of remembering the ethernet binding of old NICs brings more &#8220;joy&#8221; that headaches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today I decided to change nic in my server because the onboard NIC wasn&#8217;t working properly. And so again I hit the problem that udev can assigns a NIC a different ethX name than what the kernel is printing in dmesg. So one modprobes the module and gets the following output: e100: Intel(R) PRO\/100 Network [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-free-software"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.iola.dk\/arj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.iola.dk\/arj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.iola.dk\/arj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.iola.dk\/arj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.iola.dk\/arj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/people.iola.dk\/arj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.iola.dk\/arj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.iola.dk\/arj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.iola.dk\/arj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}