Hi, I also had both eth0 and eth0_rename on my SPARCstation 5. My guess is that this is caused by both NICs using the same MAC address. Although this isn't especially common, it is perfectly valid, and udev should support it.
I asked about this on the debian-sparc list, and Chris Newport suggested setting the 'local_mac_address?' OBP variable to true. Unfortunately, that doesn't work on my machine. I've just moved persistent-net.rules and persistent-net-generator.rules out of the way for the time being. persistent-net.rules looks sane: # This file was automatically generated by the /lib/udev/write_net_rules # program, probably run by the persistent-net-generator.rules rules # file. # # You can modify it, as long as you keep each rule on a single line. # MAC addresses must be written in lowercase. # Unknown net device (/class/net/eth1) (sunlance) SUBSYSTEM=="net", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTRS{address}=="08:00:20:76:33:d8", NAME="eth1" # Unknown net device (/class/net/eth0) (sunlance) SUBSYSTEM=="net", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTRS{address}=="08:00:20:76:33:d8", NAME="eth0" -- Stuart Brady -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]