Re: How to disable persistent network device names?

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

Hi Frank,

> Olaf wrote
> 
>> 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 tried this, with and without removing the 70-persistent-net.rules,
> but still my test host comes up with eth_s2_0 and eth_s2_1, so the
> kernel must tell udev those names.
> 
> But in /var/log/boot.msg I find this (quoting only about eth0 here):
> 
> <6>e1000: eth0: e1000_probe: Intel(R) PRO/1000 Network Connection
> ...
> <6>eth0 renamed to eth_s2_0 by udevd [274]
> <6>udev: renamed network interface eth0 to eth_s2_0
> 
> So udev must have some other rule telling it to rename those devices.
> After I have removed 70-persistent-net.rules (and it is not re-created
> when rebooting) I don't know where this could come from :-(
> Do you have any idea?

Could be something from the SLES initramfs?
I don't have/use SLES so I really don't know where the rename to 
eth_s2_* comes from, sorry.



Olaf