Olaf wrote > Could be something from the SLES initramfs? > I don't have/use SLES so I really don't know where the rename to > eth_s2_* comes from, sorry. You had the right idea! I was using a initrd on this host and the mkinitrd script copies the 70-persistent-net.rules into the initrd if it finds this file. I guess while I was trying around with the udev rules, a new kernel was installed (happens automatically after a reboot) and took the wrong file for its initrd. Now with this solved, I can go on with your bypass-rules to be independent of the MACs. Thanks a lot for your help!! cu, Frank -- Dipl.-Inform. Frank Steiner Web: http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~steiner/ Lehrstuhl f. Bioinformatik Mail: http://www.bio.ifi.lmu.de/~steiner/m/ LMU, Amalienstr. 17 Phone: +49 89 2180-4049 80333 Muenchen, Germany Fax: +49 89 2180-99-4049 * Rekursion kann man erst verstehen, wenn man Rekursion verstanden hat. * -- 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