Re: renamed network interface eth0 to eth1

[Hugo Vanwoerkom <hvw59601@care2.com>]

James Zuelow wrote:
> ----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.

But I haven't

> What does /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules say?

# PCI device 0x1106:0x3065 (via-rhine)
SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", 
ATTR{address}=="00:04:61:77:98:dc", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*", 
NAME="eth0"

# PCI device 0x10ec:0x8139 (8139too)
SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", 
ATTR{address}=="00:0a:e4:eb:04:59", ATTR{dev_id}=="0x0", 
ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*", NAME="eth1"

# PCI device 0x14e4:0x4318 (b43)
SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", 
ATTR{address}=="00:14:a4:4c:3c:d5", ATTR{dev_id}=="0x0", 
ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="wlan*", NAME="wlan0"