[Xymon] Network Traffic Graph - Fedora 15

[Vernon Everett]

Hi Sam

I recall about 7 years ago, give or take, when Sun released the new
T2000 line of servers, NICs changed from being eri0, hme0, qfe1and
similar to being e1000g0, e1000g1.....
You could grab the old NICs by using a regex. They were all of the
form aaaX (a=Alpha, X=Numeric)
"^[a-z][a-z][a-z][0-9]" or something like that.
It all happened inside the C code, so I plead ignorance of the details.

The new NIC IDs no longer fitted the regex, and it broke Hobbit. (Yes,
it was called Hobbit back then)
Henrik was pretty quick off the mark though, and sorted me out with a
patch within a day or three.
(I am guessing he wasn't so busy back then)

It is possible that you have encountered something similar.
Henrik? Could it be?

I would go to your sysadmin guys and get them to stop playing
silly-buggers with the NIC naming conventions.
If they refuse to be reasonable, you might have to petition Henrik for a fix.
I still owe Henrik a beer for that T2000 fix. :-)

Regards
     Vernon


On 13 July 2011 10:36, Sam L <s0a4m at hotmail.com> wrote:
> Hey, I was just wondering if anyone had any ideas about this?
>
> Thanks!
>
> ________________________________
> From: s0a4m at hotmail.com
> To: xymon at xymon.com
> Subject: Network Traffic Graph - Fedora 15
> Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2011 14:39:34 -0400
>
> I've been running xymon 4.3.3 on Fedora 14 for a month or two without any
> issues.  I recently upgraded to Fedora 15 and now my "Network Traffic" graph
> in trends is no longer working.  They changed up something with network card
> naming in Fedora 15, and my NIC is no longer called eth0 (or
> eth<anything>).  The interface is now called p33p1.  Should xymon be able to
> figure that out on it's own or do I need to tell it to look for more than
> ethX?
>
> Thanks.
> s0a4m
>
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