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From: Michal Schmidt <xschmi00@stud.feec.vutbr.cz>
Subject: Re: is it a backwards compatability catch-22?
Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 21:10:46 +0200
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Rick Jones wrote:
> lumber:~# cat /etc/udev/rules.d/010_netinterfaces.rules
> KERNEL="eth*",SYSFS{address}=="00:30:6e:4c:27:3c", NAME="eth0"
> KERNEL="eth*",SYSFS{address}=="00:30:6e:4c:27:3d", NAME="eth1"
> KERNEL="eth*",SYSFS{address}=="00:12:79:9e:0e:d2", NAME="eth2"
> KERNEL="eth*",SYSFS{address}=="00:12:79:9e:0e:d3", NAME="eth3"
> KERNEL="eth*",SYSFS{address}=="00:0c:fc:00:08:71", NAME="eth4"
        ^^^
BTW, you should use "==" here instead of "=". Otherwise the rules will 
break with newer udev versions which behave strictly in this regard.

Michal