RE: renamed network interface eth0 to eth1
----Original Message----
From: Hugo Vanwoerkom [mailto:hvw59601@care2.com]
Sent: Wednesday, September 22, 2010 1:11 PM
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
Subject: renamed network interface eth0 to eth1
> Hi,
>
> I couldn't figure out why the network wouldn't come up, untill I saw
> this:
>
> hugo@debian:~$ dmesg | grep -i eth
> [ 1.181349] 8139cp: 10/100 PCI Ethernet driver v1.3 (Mar 22, 2004)
> [ 1.229553] 8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.28
> [ 1.231041] eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0x3000, 00:0a:e4:eb:04:59,
> IRQ 20 [ 9.727658] udev: renamed network interface eth0 to eth1
> [ 21.532930] eth1: link up, 100Mbps, full-duplex, lpa 0x45E1
> [ 32.464023] eth1: no IPv6 routers present
>
> Why would udev rename the interface?
>
> Hugo
It will do that if it thinks another interface should be eth0. Say you replaced a NIC or similar.
What does /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules say?
James Z
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