On Mon, 27 Feb 2012 09:46:59 -0500, Curt Howland wrote:
> I'm aware of _what_ UDEV is doing, that is, renumbering my ethernet
> ports to prevent conflicts. Yeah. There's only one, but it's getting
> renumbered "eth3".
Your ethernet card is having some sort of personality problem :-P
> Trouble is, it wasn't renumbered yesterday. Just today. And a week ago.
Oh, clearly udev wants to test your patience.
> About a week ago, UDEV decided to let eth0 remain eth0, which was nice,
> but I had to change /etc/network/interfaces because it had previously
> decided that eth0 should be eth3, and had been doing that since I
> installed it two years ago.
You know how to prevent this, right?
> Yes, I'm running Unstable, so it's the UDEV updates that are doing this.
> That makes sense.
Have been any updates for the kernel?
> What doesn't make sense is _why_. There is only one ethernet interface
> in this machine. Why is UDEV renumbering them _at_all_?
Does dmesg ("dmesg|grep -i eth") tell you something about what's going on?
Greetings,
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