LARTC - Dec 2002 - dynamic device names?

hello, this might be a little off the list and probably only concerns the
iproute2 suite.

i use tc htb with iproute2, worked fine with an uptime of ~70 days, suddenly,
the device name of eth0 changes from "eth0" to
"eth0ÿÿÿÿ". the strange(?) part of this is that all the routes that
used eth0 changed too, so "X via Y dev eth0ÿÿÿÿ".

since i couldnt get putty to type that particular letter (ÿ), i had to reboot so
that it could reread the startup file with all the
info about interfaces.

now, have anyone seen this before, is it iproute2 related or could it be
something else?


greatful for enlightenment,

tomas bonnedahl


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additinal info regarding this issue, the character i wanted to show here did not
encode as i wanted it to, so, well, look \377 up and
see what it looks like or perhaps you dont need that since that perticular
character doesnt matter that much ;)

-tomas
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