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From: "Albert W. Hopkins" <marduk@×××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] mobo replaced; eth0 fails
Date: Sat, 12 Nov 2011 11:59:59
Message-Id: 1321099053.3300.1.camel@stretch
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] mobo replaced; eth0 fails by Allan Gottlieb
1 On Fri, 2011-11-11 at 21:41 -0500, Allan Gottlieb wrote:
2 > 3. Some advised blowing away .../persistent-net.rules.
3 > I chose to modify it so that the new device is now eth0 and the
4 > old
5 > device is gone.
6
7 Removing it does the same thing. The device file is re-created with the
8 currently probed hardware and indexes start from 0. It's just that most
9 people prefer to just remove it because it's less typing and less prone
10 to errors.
11
12 >
13 >

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Re: [gentoo-user] mobo replaced; eth0 fails Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@×××.edu>