On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 12:33 PM, Kevin Wilson <wkevils@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I am using Ubuntu with udev on a Linux machine > > From time to time it happens that network devices are renamed after boot, > and this is due to udev (I know for sure that the reason for this is > uboot, because if I delete the udev > network rules file from /etc/udev/rules.d/, and reboot again, this > renaming does not occur). > > What I mean more specifically is this: > I boot and I have (when running "ifconfig -a") eth0, eth1, eth2, eth3 > (I have 4 network cards). > sometimes after reboot I get with ""ifconfig -a" " the following : > eth6, eth7, eth8, eth9 The udev version in systemd does not do any of the automatic the network rename rules creation in /etc anymore. It creates far more problems than it solves, so it is all gone in current releases. In older versions, the rule generator can be "masked" by creating an empty rules file in /etc/udev/rules.d/ that disables the rules file /lib/udev/rules.d/ which calls the network rules generator. 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
