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Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2014 12:44:04 +0000
Subject: Re: Reordered network interface names
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Hello,

thank you for your response.

On 03.02.2014 13:02, Tom Gundersen wrote:
> > Rarely after reboot interfaces are reordered and one of them is named
>
> > eth1_rename (about 20 reboots is needed to reproduce this issue). I
> > tried to update udev but this didn't resolve this issue. I also tried
> > running udev with debug-trace but it caused that only eth0 didn't have
> > "_rename" suffix.
>
> This is a known problem, when trying to rename interfaces in the 
> kernel namespace (ethX). It is fixed in recent versions of udev (what 
> versions did you try?) by udev automatically renaming all the 
> interfaces in a deterministic way (google for predictable interface 
> names).
>
I understand. I tried the latest udev which compile on this system 
(udev-137 downloaded from pkgs.fedoraproject.org). But now I know that 
it's fixed in version 197. I'll try to resolve this issue manually. 
Thank you for your help.
>
> I suggest you either use the most recent udev, or call your interfaces 
> something else, lanX, say.
>
> HTH,
>
> Tom
>
Best regards,
Arkadiusz