Purge old eth1, add new nic as eth0

[Bill Shirley]

On 10/15/2012 1:02 PM, JD wrote:
>
> On 10/13/2012 05:53 AM, Reindl Harald wrote:
>>
>> Am 13.10.2012 13:46, schrieb Frank Murphy:
>>> How can I completly remove all remnants of an old eth1
>>> Everytime I go to add a new nic it wants to call it eth1
>>>
>>> I will be replacing the old nic with ano identical chipped card,
>>> which it wants to call eth1
>>>
>>> I would prefer eth0
>>>
>>> F17 using system-config-network
>>> I have through s-c-n removed all hardware nic,
>>> also removeed ~/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth*
>>> Keeps coming back
>>>
>>> Where else do I look
>> /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules this is the only
>> place which matters for manual NIC-naming and ifcfg_eth*
>> scripts should NOT contain MAC-addresses to leave the
>> udev-rule the only point to assign
>>
>> you need to reboot or restat udev
>>
>> cat /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules
>> # PCI device 0x8086:0x1502 (e1000e)
>> SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", 
>> ATTR{address}=="3c:d9:2c:65:95:9f", ATTR{dev_id}=="0x0",
>> ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*", NAME="eth0"
>>
>> # PCI device 0x8086:0x10d3 (e1000e)
>> SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", 
>> ATTR{address}=="00:1b:21:a6:91:e4", ATTR{dev_id}=="0x0",
>> ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*", NAME="eth1"
>>
>> # PCI device 0x168c:0x0024 (ath9k)
>> SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", 
>> ATTR{address}=="fc:75:12:5e:cf:e5", ATTR{dev_id}=="0x0",
>> ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="wlan*", NAME="wlan0"
>>
>>
>>
> On my system,  log in var log messages shows
> /var/log/messages-20120930:Sep 26 08:43:22 localhost kernel: [ 
> 5.935732] eth0: SiS 900 PCI Fast Ethernet at 0xd800, IRQ 19, 
> 00:03:0d:15:2b:9e
> /var/log/messages-20121007:Oct  4 18:18:39 localhost 
> system-config-network[27851]: rm 
> //etc/sysconfig/networking/profiles/default/ifcfg-eth0
>
> But in /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules
> I have
> SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", 
> ATTR{address}=="00:03:0d:13:0b:0e", ATTR{dev_id}=="0x0", 
> ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*", NAME="eth0"
>
> So, ifconfig returns no info about eth0, or any eth# device.
>
>
>
In your log file, the MAC address is 00:03:0d:15:2b:9e.
The udev rule looks for MAC address 00:03:0d:13:0b:0e.
No match, no action.

Bill