On 6 April 2013, at 16:57, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > ... >> Please excuse me, I am running back and forth from the servers and >> typing the error message here. Did our configuration get switched to >> IP6? These are our DB servers and why me!!! Why ME!!!!! > > No, it's not just you, it's happened to pretty much everybody. udev-200 > now renames eth0, eth1, .... to something else, dependent upon > complicated rules. In my case eth0 has become p6p1, though many people > seem to have got longer names. > > ... > Yes, it's a pain in the backside.
The irony of it is that AIUI these changes were occasioned because the kernel devs refused to make changes which might renumber the network ports for a very small number of users (who were running, at the time, the very latest generation of Dell or HP servers, less than 6 months old). I believe Linus himself was involved and he said "no, no, no! we cannot make changes which will break things!" Stroller.
