From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.5a) Gecko/20030706 Mozilla Firebird/0.6 Description of problem: Hi, I am trying to hardwire my ethernet interfaces names with the use of nameif, however when I create the appropiate /etc/mactab file for a machine containing 3 Intel EEpro cards I get the following message Cannot change name of eth2 to eth0: File Exists I suspect it may be due to naming conflicts, I think this is better described here http://pcxperience.org/nameif/ Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Create /etc/mactab 2. Introduce nameif in the networking script I used the technique described in Randy Dunlap's mini-howto http://www.xenotime.net/linux/doc/network-interface-names.txt Randy's changes were done on a Mandrake 9.0 installation Actual Results: Interface names not wired according to mac address Additional info: Possible bug fix described here http://pcxperience.org/nameif/
Fixed in latest initscripts. Now you can use any kind of interface name (e.h. ifcfg-foobar). That should help. Read ya, Phil
Phil, Any chance that is going to be queued for an errata release