Udev Question

[David A. Bandel]

On Sat, Jun 19, 2010 at 14:53, C M Reinehr <cmr at amsent.com> wrote:

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> [   40.677470] eth1: dma_rwctrl[769f4000] dma_mask[64-bit]
> [   40.680862] udev: renamed network interface eth0 to eth4
> [   40.708863] udev: renamed network interface eth1 to eth5
>
> If I'm reading this correctly, each port was initially assigned the usual
> eth0, 1 or 2, but then almost immediately renamed eth3, 4 or 5.
>

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>
> I almost left out, that since the MAC addresses were different I had to edit
> the interfaces file to correct for that, but that didn't cause or correct the
> udev renaming.
>
> If you've read this far, then very sincerely, thanks for your patience and any
> insights you may have. I'm up and running, but I really would like to
> understand what is happening here.
>

Take a look down in /etc/udev/rules.d/ for a file probably named
70-persistent-net.rules.  This file is where udev reorders your
interfaces.  Just change what you want in here.  You only have to
change the eth#, but make sure you don't have two lines with the same
eth# (not sure what might happen, but the results could get
interesting if both MACs are in the same machine).

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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