Re: How to disable persistent network device names?

[Olaf <mailinglists@ban-solms.de>]

Hi Frank,

>> Did you try removing the persistent net generator rule file? (usually 
>> 75-persistent-net-generator.rules)
>> Don't know where that is located in SLES, might be in /etc/udev/rules.d 
>> or /lib/udev/rules.d
> 
> that would work, yes! But with the next udev update that file would be
> back and if I missed that, the rule files could get created by the
> next "udevadm trigger" call (from whereever). So this is a work-around, 
> but not reliable, clean solution, I guess.

OK, in that case you could create your own rule to bypass the net-generator.

Put something like this in 69-bypass-persistent-net.rules:
SUBSYSTEM="net", ACTION="add", NAME="%k"


> I also though that removing the 70-persistent-* rules on every boot
> before boot.udev runs would help, but I've least one hosts that still
> creates renamed network devices other than eth0 and eth1 (see my other
> email on the list), so this doesn't help either.

The persistent net generator recreates the persistent-net if it does not 
exist.


Olaf