Re: udev foolishness in wheezy
On Mon, 27 Jul 2015, Gene Heskett wrote:
> 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?
Persistent network interface naming is very useful.
> 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?
If this is Jessie, see /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules. If
it's later, see /usr/share/doc/udev/README.Debian.gz and
/usr/share/doc/udev/NEWS.Debian.gz which contains more details about the
new location or mac specific interface naming scheme.
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