On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 3:07 PM, Matt Graham <danceswithcrows@usa.net> wrote:

> After a long battle with technology, Dazed_75 wrote:
> > On Sat, Oct 3, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Alex Dean <alex@crackpot.org> wrote:
> >> On Oct 4, 2009, at 3:28 AM, Dazed_75 wrote:
> >>> ifserver kernel: [    9.611230] udev: renamed network interface eth0 to
> >>> eth1
> >>>I assume that it was originally known as eth0.  But when a PCI ethernet
> >>>card was added, I was surprised to see it listed as eth0 and the
> >>>motherboard as eth1.
> >> If you're doing your configuration via /etc/network/interfaces, you can
> >> add a 'hwaddress' stanza in the configuration for either a 'static' or
> >> 'dhcp' interface.  I think you should be able to use that to control
> >> which device becomes eth0, eth1, etc.
> > NetworkManager is running and I am not touching /etc/network/interfaces.
>
> Check your /etc/udev/rules.d/ for a file matching *persistent* and
> containing
> lines sort of like so:
>
> # PCI device 0x10de:0x0057 (forcedeth)
> SUBSYSTEM=="net", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="00:e0:81:55:8f:66",
> KERNEL=="eth*", NAME="eth3"
>
> ...I only have 2 NICs in this box, but because I moved motherboards a
> couple
> of times without reinstalling anything, the onboard NIC here is now known
> as
> eth3.  Changing it back to eth1 would be relatively easy.
>

Yep, that was it,  Thanks Matt

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Dazed_75 a.k.a. Larry

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