On Tuesday 27 August 2019 14:58:37 Tyler D wrote: > On Tue, Aug 27, 2019 at 2:45 PM Gene Heskett <ghesk...@shentel.net> wrote: > > Greetings all; > > > > I've just swapped machines because that failed one got nailed by a > > lightning surge while I was in the shop with a heart attack. 3 > > different psu's didn't restore the green led in a decade old dell, > > so I swapped the whole box except for the HD. > > > > But udevs UN-persistent rules have apparently run out of eth0 names, > > renaming the only ethernet port it has to eth2. So I either rename > > it to eth2 in /e/n/i, or kill the rule that advances the name. > > Since those old dells only come with one port, I'd much druther have > > a fixed name. > > > > What, in wheezy, /lib/udev/rules.d rule do I nuke so eth0 remains > > eth0 regardless of which box I put that drive in? > > > > Thanks. > > > > Cheers, Gene Heskett > > -- > > "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: > > soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." > > -Ed Howdershelt (Author) > > If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law > > respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis > > Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> > > I usually just blow away /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules to > solve stuff like that... I'm not absolutely sure that's the same in > Wheezy though.
I'll do it, but the date on it is today, so I suspect something in /lib/udev/rules.d is behind the re-write. And thats probably where to apply the nuclear option. They really should have renamed it 70-un-persistent-net. T'would have been a much more accurate description. Thanks. Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable. - Louis D. Brandeis Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene>
