On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 17:48, Nilshar <nilshar@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > My problem is on a debian 5.0 (Lenny) with udev version 0.125-7. > on previous versions of debian, I often deleted the file > /etc/udev/rules.d/z25-persistent-net.rules, and this file was > recreated after a reboot. > I tried to do same thing with Lenny. > First, I saw that name of this file changed to > /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules, si I deleted that file, but > after a reboot, it was not created. > After several hours searching the internet, I found nothing solving > this problem. > And after more tries, I noticed this only appear on a vmware system. > Recreating the file /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules on a > "normal" Dell server is working just fine. It might be, that the vmware interface does not trigger the creation of a persistent rule. Network interfaces need to be created by a "driver", be backed by a "bus". Look a the devpath of the device and it will tell you the parent devices: /sys/class/net/eth0 -> ../../devices/pci0000:00/[...]/net/eth0 which means, that it's backed by a PCI device, and therefore a rule will be created. Maybe the vmware interface is a virtual one. Kay -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hotplug" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
