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!

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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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Yes, I am aware Fedora changed the naming convention. My question is: How can I get the xymon network traffic graph (in trends) to work again? The only network traffic graph I have still only has eth0 in it (from old data before the Fedora upgrade.) I could probably force the name back to eth0 in the OS, but that seems like a cheesy workaround, since this is how the naming is going to be going forward. How can I get xymon to become aware that my NIC is called p33p1?

Thanks for any guidance.

Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 20:19:11 +0800 Subject: Re: [Xymon] Network Traffic Graph - Fedora 15 From: colin.coe at gmail.com To: everett.vernon at gmail.com CC: s0a4m at hotmail.com; xymon at xymon.com

Vernon is correct. Fedora 15 moves away from eth[0-9], at least in some circumstances. See http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/ConsistentNetworkDeviceNaming

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On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Vernon Everett <everett.vernon at gmail.com> wrote:

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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:

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Hey, I was just wondering if anyone had any ideas about this?

Thanks!

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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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On Thu, Jul 14, 2011 at 1:35 AM, Sam L <s0a4m at hotmail.com> wrote:

Also, if this changed in Fedora now, then it means it is probably coming for Red Hat Enterprise Linux soon.  And I assume this issue would hit more people then.

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From: s0a4m at hotmail.com To: xymon at xymon.com Subject: RE: [Xymon] Network Traffic Graph - Fedora 15 Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 13:29:21 -0400

Yes, I am aware Fedora changed the naming convention.  My question is: How can I get the xymon network traffic graph (in trends) to work again?  The only network traffic graph I have still only has eth0 in it (from old data before the Fedora upgrade.)  I could probably force the name back to eth0 in the OS, but that seems like a cheesy workaround, since this is how the naming is going to be going forward.  How can I get xymon to become aware that my NIC is called p33p1?

Thanks for any guidance.

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Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2011 20:19:11 +0800 Subject: Re: [Xymon] Network Traffic Graph - Fedora 15 From: colin.coe at gmail.com To: everett.vernon at gmail.com CC: s0a4m at hotmail.com; xymon at xymon.com

Vernon is correct. Fedora 15 moves away from eth[0-9], at least in some circumstances. See http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/ConsistentNetworkDeviceNaming

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On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 2:28 PM, Vernon Everett <everett.vernon at gmail.com> wrote:

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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:

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Hey, I was just wondering if anyone had any ideas about this?

Thanks!

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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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On Wednesday, 13 July 2011 04:36:36 Sam L 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

Could you at least provide the *actual* output of 'ifconfig' ?

If only the names have changed, then most likely you just need to adjust the regex on line 22 of xymond/rrd/do_ifstat.c, which is currently:

"^([a-z]+[0123456789.:]+|lo)\\s"

Maybe it should just be: "^([a-z0123456789.:]+)\\s"

Regards, Buchan