Re: Why did UDEV renumber my ethernet interface again?
On Monday 27 Feb 2012, Curt Howland 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_?
>
> Curt-
I had the same thing, and I think it is because a bug in the script
that processes network udev events was fixed. I forget the bug
number, but there was a trailing \ missing from a line.
David
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