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    Network doesn't work on every boot

    Recently, I started to get problems with network. It gets fixed by reboot, but there must be a better solution.

    I noticed, that when network doesn't work, interfaces are named eth0 and eth1_rename. After reboot, they're eth0 and eth1, and following messages show up in logs:

    Code:
    Jan 18 13:13:45 localhost kernel: [    9.980921] udev: renamed network interface eth0 to eth1
    Jan 18 13:13:45 localhost kernel: [   10.025451] udev: renamed network interface eth1_rename to eth0
    Also, that probably started around time, when I've removed wlan0 board. How can it be fixed?

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    Re: Network doesn't work on every boot

    Quote Originally Posted by NilPointer View Post
    Recently, I started to get problems with network. It gets fixed by reboot, but there must be a better solution.

    I noticed, that when network doesn't work, interfaces are named eth0 and eth1_rename. After reboot, they're eth0 and eth1, and following messages show up in logs:

    Code:
    Jan 18 13:13:45 localhost kernel: [    9.980921] udev: renamed network interface eth0 to eth1
    Jan 18 13:13:45 localhost kernel: [   10.025451] udev: renamed network interface eth1_rename to eth0
    Also, that probably started around time, when I've removed wlan0 board. How can it be fixed?

    I was also facing this problem in 10.04 and 10.10. But since I upgraded to 11.04 problem is fixed. Right now I am using 12.04 and I didn't face this problem. I think you should try upgrading to 12.04, it is also LTS.

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    Re: Network doesn't work on every boot

    What's ur /etc/network/interfaces entrys ?

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    Re: Network doesn't work on every boot

    Quote Originally Posted by c2tarun View Post
    Right now I am using 12.04 and I didn't face this problem. I think you should try upgrading to 12.04, it is also LTS.
    There is no need to upgrade.

    This kind of behavior is expected if you rely upon specific interface names
    (for example, in /etc/network/interfaces) and change hardware (like a NIC) without updating your udev rules (/etc/udev/rules.d/*-persistent-net-rules) with the new MAC address.

    Reinstalling (or the suggested upgrade) simply wipes the old udev rule with the old MAC address. It does work, but it's overkill for the rather simple fixes of either cleaning uneccessary lines from the interfaces file or deleting the old udev rule.

    For example, here is my udev rule for laptop wireless. See the MAC address? And the assignment to wlan0?
    Code:
    $ cat /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules | grep wlan
    
    SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="03:24:2d:7c:2b:7a", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="wlan*", NAME="wlan0"
    TIP: use sudo or gksudo when editing this root-level file. And *always* make a backup of the file first.



    imadovitsky is on the right track, asking first about the interfaces file.

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    Re: Network doesn't work on every boot

    Thanks for your replies!

    Well, here are persistent net rules.

    Code:
    # PCI device 0x1106:0x3106 (via-rhine)
    SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="00:24:01:a2:ce:8d", ATTR{dev_id}=="0x0", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*", NAME="eth0"
    
    # PCI device 0x10ec:0x8168 (r8169)
    SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="00:19:66:4e:64:b6", ATTR{dev_id}=="0x0", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*", NAME="eth1"
    
    # PCI device 0x10ec:0x8185 (rtl8180)
    SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="00:14:d1:50:ef:6b", ATTR{dev_id}=="0x0", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="wlan*", NAME="wlan0"
    
    # USB device 0x0b05:0x1786 (usb)
    SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="50:46:5d:ad:6b:cf", ATTR{dev_id}=="0x0", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="wlan*", NAME="wlan1"
    Third one is for removed wlan0 PCI card and fourth is for USB Wi-Fi dongle. Both are no longer needed. eth0 is installed, but unused (PCI Card). eth1 is integrated into MB and is only used NIC on system.

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    Re: Network doesn't work on every boot

    so, comment out 1, 3, and 4 and you should be good to go ...

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    Re: Network doesn't work on every boot

    Yes, I tried that, but problem is not yet solved. After commenting out 1, 3 and 4, first one ressurected as 5th entry and problem was still here. I eventually removed 3 and 4 completely (since I have no plans to use those NICs in future) and extracted eth0 card from PC. After that, it stopped to ressurect, but commenting out it's entry makes network not fixable even by reboot. Here is /etc/network/interfaces

    Code:
    auto lo
    iface lo inet loopback
    pre-up iptables-restore < /etc/iptables.rules
    If I remember correctly, it was always that way and network was configured via Network Manager.
    Last edited by NilPointer; January 19th, 2013 at 09:22 AM.

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    Re: Network doesn't work on every boot

    Hmm... Strange. 3rd reboot and network still works... It would seem that problem is solved!

    Apparently, I fixed it somehow via trial-and-error editing of persistent net rules. Now file looks that way:

    Code:
    # PCI device 0x1106:0x3106 (via-rhine)
    SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="00:24:01:a2:ce:8d", ATTR{dev_id}=="0x0", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*", NAME="eth0"
    
    # PCI device 0x10ec:0x8168 (r8169)
    SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="00:19:66:4e:64:b6", ATTR{dev_id}=="0x0", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*", NAME="eth1"

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