Switch eth0 and eth1, how?

[JD]

On 10/19/2012 07:53 PM, Michael D. Setzer II wrote:
> I recently changed a machine using this method with no problem.
> The disk had been moved after a motherboard failed, and the nic
> was coming up as eth2 instead of eth0. Had two previous nics
> listed, and just removed those lines from the file, and manually
> changed the eth2 to eth0. Did you make sure the edit-out
> numbers were exactly the same, if they are off at all, it goes to
> creating a name.
>
>
Yes, they indeed are the same, but the latest post
about using ifrename did the trick for me.