Re: Why did UDEV renumber my ethernet interface again?
On Mon, Feb 27, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Curt Howland <Howland@priss.com> wrote:
> Dear Debianistas,
>
> I'm aware of _what_ UDEV is doing, that is, renumbering my ethernet
> ports to prevent conflicts. Yeah. There's only one, but it's getting
> renumbered "eth3".
>
> Trouble is, it wasn't renumbered yesterday. Just today. And a week ago.
>
> About a week ago, UDEV decided to let eth0 remain eth0, which was
> nice, but I had to change /etc/network/interfaces because it had
> previously decided that eth0 should be eth3, and had been doing that
> since I installed it two years ago.
>
> Yes, I'm running Unstable, so it's the UDEV updates that are doing
> this. That makes sense.
>
> What doesn't make sense is _why_. There is only one ethernet interface
> in this machine. Why is UDEV renumbering them _at_all_?
mmm, what does /etc/udev/70-persistent-net.rule file say ?
Reply to: