How can I prevent udevd from renaming eth0 to em1

[JD]

On 10/23/2012 04:10 PM, Bill Davidsen wrote:
> JD wrote:
>>
>> On 10/17/2012 02:15 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote:
>>> On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 14:01:25 -0600,
>>>   JD <jd1008 at 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.
>>>
>> Hi Bruno,
>> Actually, one of the fedoraproject bloggers said that the renaming is 
>> being done
>> by the biosdevname package. So I uninstalled it and rebooted, to  no 
>> avail.
>> So as of now, I have neither the biosdevname package, nor it's 
>> corresponding
>> rules files.
>>
>> Then some other blogger suggested adding the line
>> biosdevname=0
>> into /boot/grub2/grub.cfg
>> which I did and rebooted, to  no avail. That was followed by
>> another OP's suggestion to make an entry into
>> /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules like
>> # PCI device 0x1039:0x0900 (sis900)
>> SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", 
>> ATTR{address}=="edited-out",
>> ATTR{dev_id}=="0x0",
>> ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*", NAME="eth0"
>>
>> which I did, and rebooted to no avail.
>>
>> So, the only recourse I  have left is to try and download the source 
>> code of
>> udevd to see where and why it is renaming eth0 to em1.
>>
>>
> What release are you running? I don't match this to fc16, fc17, or 
> rhel6. You must have a pretty old release, because you mentioned old 
> style output from ifconfig, no colon after the device name.
>
Bill I am still on FC16.
I tried to use the F17 DVD to UPGRADE to f17, and it (In mean anaconda) 
crashed.
So, I am waiting for F18 perhaps migh be more robust.