* Marco d'Itri: > udev receives the hotplug event for eth0 > udev starts dispatching the event for eth0 > udev runs ifrename which renames eth0 to eth1 > udev cannot detect this and continues dispatching the event for eth0 This looks like a bug in udev. It should not try to identify devices based on names a user can and will change. After all, it's not just ifrename. The iproute and net-tools packages are also affected.