On 10/17/2012 02:15 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 14:01:25 -0600,
  JD <jd1...@gmail.com> wrote:

So, does anyone have any other suggestion how to
prevent udevd from renaming eth0 to em1?

Do you have 71-biosdevname.rules in either /etc/udev/rules.d or /usr/lib/udev/rules.d ? I expect that would run after the persistant name rule and reset things.

I actually have the opposite issue in that I want to use the biosdevname names, since eth0 and eth1 have been getting assigned randomnly for a while now on one of my machines and the renaming ability of the network initscripts seems to have gone away.

OK, so in the udev source package, in file
udev/udev-event.c

if (udev_device_get_ifindex(dev) > 0 && strcmp(udev_device_get_action(dev), "add") == 0 && event->name != NULL && strcmp(event->name, udev_device_get_sysname(dev)) != 0) {
                        char syspath[UTIL_PATH_SIZE];
                        char *pos;

                        err = rename_netif(event);

However, as I am unfamiliar with this package's internal logic and data structures,
it is still unclear why it finds the  interface index > 0
or the action set to add, nor is it clear why the values being tested have these values that cause the renaming. For example, I have only one wired ethernet interface, so why would it's index be greater than 0?

I hope a developer with knowledge of the networking subsystem is able to help here.


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