[asterisk-users] What can make G.729a codec hostid change?

[Kevin P. Fleming]

On 09/07/2010 02:16 PM, Barry Miller wrote:

> I posted here before contacting Digium.  They have been helpful.
> 
> Here is what I've found :
> 
> An old Etch dmesg shows this:
> 
>   eth0: VIA Rhine II at 0x1cc00, 00:13:d4:f5:e3:e6, IRQ 10.
>   eth0: MII PHY found at address 1, status 0x786d advertising 05e1 Link 41e1.
>   eth1394: eth0: IEEE-1394 IPv4 over 1394 Ethernet (fw-host0)
>   eth1: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x41E1
> 
> Current (Lenny) dmesg:
> 
>   [    8.257495] eth0: VIA Rhine II at 0x1cc00, 00:13:d4:f5:e3:e6, IRQ 10.
>   [    8.258221] eth0: MII PHY found at address 1, status 0x786d advertising 05e1 Link 41e1.
>   [   39.188147] eth0: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x41E1

Yes, there's your issue. Your old kernel loaded a Firewire-Ethernet
module, which created an 'eth1' interface. Your new kernel is not doing
that by default, but could probably be told to do so in the relevant
modprobe configuration file.

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