On Sat, Nov 12 2011, Albert W. Hopkins wrote: > On Fri, 2011-11-11 at 21:41 -0500, Allan Gottlieb wrote: >> 3. Some advised blowing away .../persistent-net.rules. >> I chose to modify it so that the new device is now eth0 and the >> old >> device is gone. > > Removing it does the same thing. The device file is re-created with the > currently probed hardware and indexes start from 0. It's just that most > people prefer to just remove it because it's less typing and less prone > to errors.
I was worried that then eth0 might be wireless and eth1 wired, but I should have tried it and only changed names if the switch happened. thanks, allan
