On Tue, Dec 11, 2012 at 10:08 AM, Arun Khan <[email protected]> wrote:
> > I don't have your persistent rules file handy. I have not seen the > contents change *unless* there is some hardware change - removal does > not delete it's respective entry and addition creates an new entry > with the eth number bumped up. > > Here I did not do any hardware change all I did was "apt-get update" followed by "apt-get upgrade" followed by "reboot", however this occured just once. On subsequent reboots the ethX does not get bumped up by one. > > > What Linux distro and version number? > > cat /etc/debian_version wheezy/sid > > This worked on an instance, thanks. However how do I make sure that the > OS > > does not rename the interface automatically and cause this confusion ? > > > > See above - entries in the persistent rules file should not change > mapping of eth name to mac address. You can make a backup copy of the > persistent rules file for reference. > > > This has happened around 3 time in approximately 50 servers so far. If the same continues I am planning to turn on the file immutable with chattr to prevent it from getting changed, do you think that might help ? -- Regards, Balasubramaniam Natarajan www.blog.etutorshop.com _______________________________________________ ILUGC Mailing List: http://www.ae.iitm.ac.in/mailman/listinfo/ilugc
