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

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