eth0 again - the end

[poma]

On 20.07.2014 17:54, Amadeus W.M. wrote:
> I have to install Matlab on a Fedora 20 machine and I need to rename the
> network device to eth0, or else Matlab won't install. This is a known issue:
>
> http://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/100235-why-can-t-i-activate-matlab-or-start-the-license-manager-in-a-newer-linux-environment#answer_109583
>
> So, to revert to eth0, I follow these instructions:
>
> http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PredictableNetworkInterfaceNames/
>
>
> It says I have 4 options. I did ALL of them and still
>
> [root at phoenix ~]# /sbin/ifconfig
> em1: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500
>          inet 192.168.1.40  netmask 255.255.255.0  broadcast 192.168.1.255
>          inet6 fe80::20c:f1ff:febc:29fe  prefixlen 64  scopeid 0x20<link>
>          ether 00:0c:f1:bc:29:fe  txqueuelen 1000  (Ethernet)
>          RX packets 713  bytes 306565 (299.3 KiB)
>          RX errors 0  dropped 0  overruns 0  frame 0
>          TX packets 979  bytes 131054 (127.9 KiB)
>          TX errors 0  dropped 0 overruns 0  carrier 0  collisions 0
>
> etc.
>
>
> Specifically, I have masked /usr/lib/udev/rules.d/80-net-name-slot.rules
> by creating a link /etc/udev/rules.d/80-net-name-slot.rules -> /dev/null.
>
> [root at phoenix ~]# ls -l /etc/udev/rules.d/
> total 8
> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 151 Jul  6 20:31 70-persistent-net.rules
> lrwxrwxrwx. 1 root root   9 Jul 20 10:36 80-net-name-slot.rules -> /dev/null
> -rw-r--r--. 1 root root 352 Apr  3 04:36 98-kexec.rules
>
>
> I also have an /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules:
>
> [root at phoenix ~]# cat /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules
> SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="00:0c:f1:bc:29:fe", ATTR{dev_id}=="0x0", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*", NAME="eth0"
>
> I also passed net.ifnames=0 to the kernel upon boot:
>
> [root at phoenix ~]# dmesg | grep ifnames
> [    0.000000] Kernel command line: BOOT_IMAGE=/vmlinuz-3.15.6-200.fc20.i686+PAE root=UUID=aa696c85-f1d4-4bf3-9a93-b011ec8e9a6a ro vconsole.font=latarcyrheb-sun16 rhgb quiet net.ifnames=0 LANG=en_US.UTF-8
>
> Someone must have figured this out. Can anybody please help me solve this?
>
>
>
> Also, NetworkManager might have something to do with this, because if I
> right-click the NW applet -> Edit Connections, I do have a connection named
> eth0, but if I try to edit that, the device MAC address is
>
> 00:0c:f1:bc:29:fe (em1)
>
> So NW somehow likes em1, despite all my efforts. If I stop and disable NW,
> then the network does not even start upon boot, as it should. How do I tell
> NW to leave my network alone and still have the network start upon boot?
>
> Thanks!
>

[systemd-devel] 70-persistent-net.rules
http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2013-April/010343.html

README.Fedora-18
http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/systemd.git/tree/README.Fedora-18?h=f18#n17

0005-F18-Revert-udev-network-device-renaming-immediately-.patch
http://pkgs.fedoraproject.org/cgit/systemd.git/plain/0005-F18-Revert-udev-network-device-renaming-immediately-.patch?h=f18

udev: network device renaming - immediately give up if the target name isn't available
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/commit/src/udev/udev-event.c?id=97595710b77aa162ca5e20da57d0a1ed7355eaad


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