On Mon, 27 Jul 2015, Gene Heskett wrote: > I am in the process of building up an old MSI K8M890M2-V motherboard, > with an Athlon 64X2 at 3.8Ghz on it, to be used for cnc machine > control, and while I finally did get networking up and running, I was > amazed to find that udev would create an eth0 on finding an 8139too on > the motherboard, this is in dmesg, but then renames it to eth5! Fixing > my /etc/network/interfaces file to bring up eth5 made it work > normally. > > But call me bumfuzzled by that remaning, what genius thought that was > a good idea?
Persistent network interface naming is very useful. > And I've not found an entry in /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net > that would explain it. Can someone advise as to the reasoning for > that? If this is Jessie, see /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules. If it's later, see /usr/share/doc/udev/README.Debian.gz and /usr/share/doc/udev/NEWS.Debian.gz which contains more details about the new location or mac specific interface naming scheme. -- Don Armstrong http://www.donarmstrong.com The carbon footprint of a single human being is enormous. If you think about it, your honour, I'm an environmentalist. -- a softer world #283 http://www.asofterworld.com/index.php?id=283 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150727161054.GF22190@geta
