On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 01:46:44PM -0500, Will Stockdell wrote: > > I'm having a networking problem with a UML installation. I can boot the > uml guest and get consoles and I can even get networking configured and > working, but when I reboot the guest it complains that it can't find the > ethernet device and /sbin/ifconfig shows that the ethernet device available > is one greater than previously. IOW, the first time, it's eth0, the second > eth1, the third eth3, etc. Obviously, this means > that /etc/network/interfaces doesn't have the right eth device. I can then > manually configure the current device whether it is eth0 or eth22, but I'd > rather not have to do that every time I boot the guest. So my question is > why does the device keep incrementing? What controls it, and how can I > make it stop?
It's probably the udev rules, try to find something like /etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules and persistent-net-generator rules and remove them. regards, iustin ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sponsored by: SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards: VOTE NOW! Studies have shown that voting for your favorite open source project, along with a healthy diet, reduces your potential for chronic lameness and boredom. Vote Now at http://www.sourceforge.net/community/cca08 _______________________________________________ User-mode-linux-user mailing list User-mode-linux-user@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/user-mode-linux-user
