On 07/31/2015 07:24 AM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > Moving the drive, with the latest updated install on it from machine to > machine, I had networking failures anew everytime I moved the drive. > > It seems some genius in charge of udev thought the interfaces should be > renamed everytime the hardware changes, so udev, in its infinite wisdom, > dutyfully finds and loads the correct driver for the hardware it has > found. But some unknown place, it keeps track of how many different > hardwares it has found, so since it had, by the time I wound up with it > in the current machine, found several different families of hardware, > it, quite a few lines on down in the dmesg report and easily missed, > renames it, in the most recent machine, to eth5! Since my local network > is hosts file based, I had to edit (after nuking network-mangler with > extreme prejudice) my /etc/network/interfaces file so it used eth5. > > Yup, I think this is a well-known problem. I also think that Ubuntu 12+ cleans this up with a new network manager that doesn't expose you to this mess. I think it still happens, but it hides the extra eth devices so you don't have to mess with it.
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