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From: Richard Fish <bigfish@××××××××××.org>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] problems getting network going properly
Date: Sun, 07 Jan 2007 20:10:29
Message-Id: 7573e9640701071206s7a44e856wabf9e013881c5d3f@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] problems getting network going properly by Etaoin Shrdlu
1 On 1/7/07, Etaoin Shrdlu <shrdlu@×××××××××××××.org> wrote:
2 > > Also, any reliable way to get a certain device to be eth0, etc. I saw
3 > > the rename, but net.examples said that was not optional.
4 >
5 > You have to create some udev rules to tie device names to MAC addresses.
6 > Search the archives of this mailing list and you'll find a few threads
7 > about this problem (with the solutions, of course).
8
9 If you have udev-103, by far the easiest way to do this is run
10
11 /lib/udev/write_net_rules all_interfaces
12
13 This will generate /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules that you
14 can then edit to assign whatever names you want.
15
16 -Richard
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