On Sat, 2015-08-29 at 10:06 +1200, Chris Bannister wrote: > On Fri, Aug 28, 2015 at 10:22:58AM -0500, David Wright wrote: > > Quoting Ric Moore (wayward4...@gmail.com): > > > > > From my own experience, if you replace a network card, udev will > > > automagically name it /dev/eth +1 so eth0 becomes eth1. I'm using > > > eth1 right now. Bugs the hell out of me but the network works, :) > > > > That's because you didn't clear the previous card's eth0 entry in > > /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules before you booted up > > the new card. > > I think you can delete the file and it will get regenerated on boot. > Well, it used to be that way, probably best to save a copy first in case > it doesn't work that way any more.
It does on Jessie. Just been bringing up several boards using the same filesystem image and needed to do this myself. Which reminds me, I should add a command to rc.local to delete all udev rules at boot. (Idea is that I can swap out boards if they fail and keep the same disk image - which is on SD card). -- Tixy
