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Renamed network interfaces [duplicate]

A recent update on my Mint system caused the eth1 to end up being renamed as eth3 and therefore breaking all my firewall & forwarding rules. How does this happen? How can I enforce the network ...
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Creating eth0 with consistent network device naming

From my understanding, Arch Linux uses Consistent Network Device Naming where the network devices are no longer named eth0, eth1, etc. I use the proprietary MATLAB software which requires a device ...
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Is there a list of NICs that work with linux?

I built a new computer and want to install Linux on it. I loaded a couple different flavors and they detect there is a NIC but it won't connect to the network. It looks like it tries and tries but ...
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What module for network card Intel Corporation Device 1521?

I'm installing a new server and I'm not able to figure out what module should I load to make its on-board network card work. Calling lspci prints: Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation Device 1521 ...
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Slow network with e1000

I've got a problem with my network speed. I sometimes have full download speed (i.e. 5 MB/s, which is about my max. internet dl-speed) and sometimes comparable slow speed (about 0.5 MB/s). This is ...
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How to fix networking driver boot load failure after replacing hardware?

After replacing the motherboard, which is the same as after replacing the network adapter interface hardware (NIC), our Debian 6.0.6 no longer loads the networking driver on boot. The manual approach ...
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Gigabit network connection in Ubuntu issue with new hardware

Probably its typical issue, but I couldn’t found the answer. Sometime ago I had mini-ITX server worked on ZOTAC IONITX-G-E. It was managed by Ubuntu 10.10. I setuped Gigabit network with this server. ...
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How can I tell whether a network interface is physical (device) or virtual (alias)?

I have a small home router running OpenWrt (Kind of embedded Linux for routers). It has five Ethernet ports, one labeled WAN and four labeld LAN 1 to 4. It has the following Network Interfaces defined ...
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Setting mobile broadband connection in Fedora 17

I am using a Dell Precision M4500. I've realized that there is a SIM slot underneath the battery slot, I suppose it is for using mobile broadband access. I am usually connecting to the internet ...
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Driver for Intel 2200BG wireless network card

I'm trying to make work my wireless network card Intel 2200BG in my laptop Acer Travelmate 4002WLMI. I tried so far: $ sudo lshw -C network *-network:1 description: Wireless interface ...
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Alternative to ethtool on MontaVista embedded Linux

I am running MontaVista Linux Professional Edition 3.1 on an embedded system. My version of this distribution doesn't seem to have ethtool available, and using mii-tool gives the following error: ...
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'iwlist' -> interface doesn't support scanning (Ubuntu LTS 10.04)

I am using Ubuntu 10.04 (LTS) on a Samsung N150+ netbook. I cannot scan wifi networks using iwlist and I would like to do so. Here is the output from some tests: ...
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biosdevname is giving me “p120p1” instead of p1p1 — is this correct?

I'm using biosdevname on a CentOS 6.3 server to name my interfaces in a rational way. On our new Dell PowerEdge C6145, we have 2 embedded ports and two PCI cards with 4 ports each. On our other Dell ...
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Interface and alias up at the same time

I have on my eth0 NIC card the following IP alias (I'm running CentOS 6.2): eth0 - IP: 192.168.50.1 eth0:5 - IP: 10.0.0.1 Now, when I boot the server, both interfaces come up and respond, but if I ...
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Detecting multihomed machine

Is there a way to reliably detect whether or not a machine is multihomed? I'd like to be able to write a script that will return a true or false regarding that information. Thanks.
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How can I debug a problem with my network connection?

On one of my computers with Xubuntu 10.04 there is a problem with the network connection. How can I debug it? I tried the cable on my laptop (running the same operating system) and it worked, so ...