I've seen it do the exact same thing on my FC5 laptop. On 5/9/06, Dan <grinnz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Charles Curley wrote: > I have just found what may be another Network Manager (NM) > stupidity. I have two NICs on my laptop > (http://www.charlescurley.com/Lenovo.R51.html) running Fedora Core > 5. One is a wired Ethernet interface, the other a wireless Ethernet > interface. In system-config-network, I have anchored eth0 and eth1 to > specific MAC addresses. > > I recently switched from using the usual configuration tools to NM. I > just found out is that NM seems to be ignoring that MAC address > anchoring. It has swapped eth0 and eth1. As a result of this the > firewall defined by firestarter does not work, and as a result of that > my system is wide open and has been for several days. > > This came to my attention because I started to think I may have a root > kit on my laptop, and started to track things down. "Pain-Free > Networking", huh? > > I haven't "anchored" anything, with the same situation (wired and wireless), and NM works fine for me, eth0 stays wired and eth1 wireless. Hey, it's a _lot_ closer than system-config-network as far as "zeroconf" wireless networking. -Dan -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
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