From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows 98) Description of problem: When the system had 11 NICs installed, ifconfig shows double info. of eth1 - eth10. This doesn't happen if the system has only 10 NICs Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1.Hardware: PE4600 + 1 embedded eepro100 + 5 dual pro100 NICs 2.Install Hampton B2 3.run ifconfig, and check the output info 4.remove the line "alias eth10 ..." in /etc/modules.conf 5.remove /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth10 file 6.reboot PE4600, press F2 for BIOS setup, then disable the embedded NIC. 7.reboot PE4600 8.run ifconfig again and check its output Actual Results: ifconfig shows double info. Expected Results: normal info as it used to be Additional info:
Created attachment 49004 [details] ifconfig of 10 NICs and 11 NICs
See this problem in beta 3 also.
I've had another bugreport with ISDN cards that showed exactly the same symptoms. Problem is, i don't have the hardware here and therefore can't reproduce the bug, so it's going to be fairly tricky to find a fix or even the root of the bug. Maybe i can fix it for the ISDN devices which should then hopefully result in a fix for this bug as well. FYI the ISDN bug is 56429. Read ya, Phil
Could you append the output of cat /proc/net/dev and ip addr for 10 and 11 nics for that machine here as well? I suspect it's a parsing problem somewhere (see the ISDN bug) as /proc/net/dev, ip and route all show the correct number of devices, and i suspect the same to be true for this bug. Thanks, Read ya, Phil
After we upgrade Jaguar's main board, the problem goes away. I have tested with BIOS version A02. Also, I run the tests on 2.4.18-0.12bigmem, smp, and up kernels. ifconfig sees correctly 12 NIC cards.
I saw this on beta 4 again.
Still need the output of /proc/net/dev for 10 and 11 nics. I don't have access to the hardware and therefore can't reproduce this bug making it impossible to debug or even fix the problem. Read ya, Phil
Created attachment 52667 [details] ifconfig & /proc/vet/dev files of 10 NICs & 12NICs configurations.
Phil, are you in Raleigh?? We sent Red Hat 6 Dual-Port Pro 100+ NICs last month that should help replicate the problem.
Unfortunately i am not located in Raleigh, therefore the hardware there doesn't really help me a lot. I might ask on of the guys over there to put it in some box, but this is very ineffective. I'll try to get by with the /proc/net/dev output and see wether thats already enough info to debug and create a fix. Read ya, Phil
Ick, net-tools is ugly code. Fixed in 1.60-4 and better.
This bug appears in Pensacola gold version also.
I reopen this bug because I saw this in Pensacola also.
Unfortunately this fix didn't make it into Pensacola final anymore. You can use the 7.3 version of the net-tools, though if necessary. The only difference is this small fix actually. Read ya, Phil