Fedora 16 killed my eth0 ?

[Zoltan Szecsei]

On 2012/04/04 13:41, 'Chris Hall' wrote:
>>>  From my side, I have a "no longer supported" SW product that
>>> licenses itself against the MAC address of ETH0. Yep, ETH0 and
>>> not any other name.
>> Put a symlink in?
> OK.  Gizza clue: what would the symlink be, where would one insert it, and what effect would it have ?  Would, for example, ifconfig or ip recognise the new name and show results using it ?  Would one end up with two apparent "interfaces" ?
>

Yep, a clue would be nice.

I compared /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules
with lspci | grep -i eth
and with /dev/.udev/db/net:eth?

and could not see a common thread to tie them together (and hence guess 
what to symlink with)

Regards,
Zoltan



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