After Motherboard Replacement, Issues With The NICs showing _

Asset ID:	1-72-2105219.1
Update Date:	2017-11-13
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Solution Type Problem Resolution Sure

Solution 2105219.1 : After Motherboard Replacement, Issues With The NICs showing __tmpXXX

Applies to:

Oracle Database Appliance X3-2 - Version All Versions to All Versions [Release All Releases]
Information in this document applies to any platform.

Symptoms

From working server

[root@ODA-SERV-001 ~]# ls -lrt /sys/class/net
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Dec 21 10:15 bond0 -> ../../devices/virtual/net/bond0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Dec 21 10:15 bonding_masters
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Feb 2 23:47 lo -> ../../devices/virtual/net/lo
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Feb 2 23:47 eth5 -> ../../devices/pci0000:80/0000:80:01.0/0000:88:00.1/net/eth5
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Feb 2 23:47 eth4 -> ../../devices/pci0000:80/0000:80:01.0/0000:88:00.0/net/eth4
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Feb 2 23:47 eth3 -> ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/0000:20:00.1/net/eth3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Feb 2 23:47 eth2 -> ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/0000:20:00.0/net/eth2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Feb 2 23:47 eth0 -> ../../devices/pci0000:80/0000:80:03.0/0000:a0:00.0/net/eth0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Feb 2 23:47 bond1 -> ../../devices/virtual/net/bond1
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Feb 2 23:47 eth1 -> ../../devices/pci0000:80/0000:80:03.0/0000:a0:00.1/net/eth1

Not working server, MAC`s were changed correctly in ifcfg-ethX file.

[root@ODA-SERV-002 ~]# ls -lrt /sys/class/net
total 0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Oct 16 2005 lo -> ../../devices/virtual/net/lo
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Oct 16 2005 eth3 -> ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/0000:20:00.1/net/eth3
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Oct 16 2005 eth2 -> ../../devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/0000:20:00.0/net/eth2
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Oct 16 2005 eth4 -> ../../devices/pci0000:80/0000:80:01.0/0000:88:00.0/net/eth4
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Oct 16 2005 eth0 -> ../../devices/pci0000:80/0000:80:03.0/0000:a0:00.0/net/eth0
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Oct 16 2005 __tmp369492663 -> ../../devices/pci0000:80/0000:80:03.0/0000:a0:00.1/net/__tmp369492663
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Oct 16 2005 eth5 -> ../../devices/pci0000:80/0000:80:01.0/0000:88:00.1/net/eth5
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Oct 16 2005 bond0 -> ../../devices/virtual/net/bond0
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 4096 Oct 16 2005 bonding_masters
lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 0 Oct 16 2005 bond1 -> ../../devices/virtual/net/bond1

Changes

system board was changed.

Cause

PCI device name got changed

__tmp369492663 -> ../../devices/pci0000:80/0000:80:03.0/0000:a0:00.1/net/__tmp369492663

Solution

# ifconfig __tmp369492663 down
# ip link set dev __tmp369492663 name eth1
# ifconfig eth1 up
# service network restart

References

<NOTE:2059085.1> - Change interface name on HAL from __tmp to ethX
<NOTE:1458683.1> - Network device showing __tmp instead of ethX

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