Re: Udev persistent net rules - how do they work?

[Alan Chandler <alan@chandlerfamily.org.uk>]

On Saturday 21 Apr 2007, Alan Chandler wrote:
> For a while now, I have been running a server with two ethernet cards
> in.
>
> In /etc/networks/interfaces I defined the basic interface as eth0 and
> eth1, but in order to create some additional psuedo ip addresses on
> my lan I created eth1:0, eth1:1 ... with static ip addresses.
>
> A couple of days ago I wanted to test something so
> changed /etc/networks/interfaces and turned all eth1 into eth0
> addresses and vica versa.
>
> However, now - when I reboot, I still end up with an additional
> eth1:0 interface - and this seems to stop my dhcp server starting.

Its actually worse than I thought

I can take this interface down with 

ifconfig eth1:0 down

and then come back a few hours later and its spontaneously been created 
again.

What could do this?

-- 
Alan Chandler
http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk