Re: udev foolishness in wheezy
On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 09:58:58AM -0400, Gene Heskett wrote:
> Greetings all;
>
> I am in the process of building up an old MSI K8M890M2-V motherboard,
> with an Athlon 64X2 at 3.8Ghz on it, to be used for cnc machine control,
> and while I finally did get networking up and running, I was amazed to
> find that udev would create an eth0 on finding an 8139too on the
> motherboard, this is in dmesg, but then renames it to eth5! Fixing
> my /etc/network/interfaces file to bring up eth5 made it work normally.
>
> But call me bumfuzzled by that remaning, what genius thought that was a
> good idea?
>
> And I've not found an entry in /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net that
> would explain it. Can someone advise as to the reasoning for that?
I found this:
http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PredictableNetworkInterfaceNames/
where the first couple of paragraphs has an interesting blurb.
Is this on a Jessie system?
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