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On Thu, 17 Sep 2009 11:18:11 +0100 (BST)
Gordon Henderson wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Sep 2009, Grant Sewell wrote:
>
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Not really an issue, more of a question... why does my LAN device
> > keep increasing? This is on my laptop (which still doesn't
> > sleep/hibernate nicely). Everytime I reboot it I get a different
> > ethXX number for my LAN interface. Right now I'm on eth74.
> > Yesterday I was on eth69.
> >
> > Any thoughts?
>
> I'd suggest there was something wrong with hotplug/udev or whatever
> the dymanic device create thingumabobs are called. (I don't use them,
> so don't really know - just guessing here!)
>
> Gordon
It is indeed udev. I keep getting entries like this:
[ 20.752883] udev: renamed network interface eth0 to eth114
Quite disturbingly I also have the following in my
/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules file:
# PCI device 0x10de:0x054c (forcedeth)
SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="00:00:6c:ae:5b:41",
ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*", NAME="eth114"
Each newly created device is given a new MAC address. They all have the same PCI
device entry.
Any ideas what is going on?!
Grant.
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