Re: dreaded ethernet device renaming

2011-03-31 Thread briand
On Thu, 31 Mar 2011 07:00:05 -0400 (EDT) Stephen Powell wrote: > On Thu, 31 Mar 2011 04:37:57 -0400 (EDT), David Goodenough wrote: > > have a look at /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules. This file > > tries to make sure that network adapters are always named in the > > same way in whatever

Re: dreaded ethernet device renaming

2011-03-31 Thread Stephen Powell
On Thu, 31 Mar 2011 04:37:57 -0400 (EDT), David Goodenough wrote: > have a look at /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules. This file > tries to make sure that network adapters are always named in the same > way in whatever order they are started. The problem comes when you replace a > network

Re: dreaded ethernet device renaming

2011-03-31 Thread David Goodenough
On Thursday 31 March 2011, bri...@aracnet.com wrote: > I mean really, why does the system still do stupid sh*t like this. > > renamed network interface eth0 to eth3 > > Why oh why ! It was already eth0, what possible reason could it have > to go rename it. > > oh and by the way, just to be ma

Re: dreaded ethernet device renaming

2011-03-30 Thread Matt Richardson
On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 9:23 PM, wrote: > I mean really, why does the system still do stupid sh*t like this. > >  renamed network interface eth0 to eth3 > > Why oh why !  It was already eth0, what possible reason could it have > to go rename it. > > oh and by the way, just to be maximally annoyin