On 2013-04-02, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > No, you are stilling misunderstanding.
He's not the only one. > The news item goes to great lengths to explain that there is a new > way and it is different from the old way. I did grok that much. I had a 70-persistent-net.rules file that named my three interfaces "eth0" "eth1" and "eth2" based on their MAC addresses. After reading the news item and flameeyes blog, I was still pretty much at a loss regarding what I was actually supposed to _do_. In Flameyes blog, he showed an example of using udev rules pretty much identical to the ones I already had, so I couldn't figure out what was different (other than the default interface names, which still aren't really predictable). In the end, I just did the upgrade and rebooted. My existing rules seemed to work fine: the interfaces came up with the same names as before. So I gave up trying to figure it out... -- Grant Edwards grant.b.edwards Yow! Of course, you at UNDERSTAND about the PLAIDS gmail.com in the SPIN CYCLE --