Hello,

We have SLES 10 linux. We have 3 network cards 1 Realtek (on-board ) and 2 Intel Cards (add-ons ). When we install the system , we have noticed that system detects 3 cards as

eth0 - INTEL
eth1 - Realtek
eth2 - INTEL

Now what we expect is eth0 should be assigned to REALTEK. So we are running a script which modifies the /etc/udev/rules.d/30-net_persistent_names.rules file
as per our requirement. And do /etc/init.d/network restart. But ifconfig still shows the older assignments. Like eth0 - INTEL , eth1 - realtek and eth2 - INTEL.
Now the question is how to update the ifconfig assignments without reboot. Reboot may solve this problem but we wish to achieve it without reboot.
Is there anything we need to do with udev or so ?

Thanks in adv.

Hi.

Try running 'udevtrigger'. Not tested it myself, but it should cause all the rules to be re-run.

Dave

Thanks for the reply. We tried this command , it works fine if we have only single ethernet interface. But in case of multiple interfaces, when the interfaces names are changed in /etc/udev/rules.d/30-persistent file and udevtrigger is ran .. this command does create some weird entries for interfaces. Like ethxx0 or ethxx1.

Is there anyway we can fix this issue?

Does udevtrigger still create weird interface names if your custom rules are taken out?

Dave

It creates such interfaces only when we have multiple interfaces and we change the 30-persistent file manually to make eth0 to eth2 and/or eth2 to eth1. Then i guess udevtrigger gets confused and creates such interfaces.

I would change your rules to create completely differently named network devices, like realtek0, intel0, intel1 and so on, so that udev doesn't trip out. Solaris does something similar, naming the network devices according to the driver name.

Dave

You have a point. I did think that when udevtrigger tries to change the interface name from eth0 to eth2 , actually eth2 is already reserved for some interface and thats where the problem starts and i suppose then the system assigns the interface name as ethxx1 or so.
So i guess if we give some logical names then changing it will not be a problem for udevtrigger.
Sounds good , i shall give it a try and revert. For the moment , i say thanks to you for your views.