Udev net issues

Joseph L. Casale JCasale at activenetwerx.com
Tue Sep 2 17:05:24 UTC 2008


>Good question, and yes, udev DOES keep track.
>
>check in /etc/udev/rules.d for file names with *persistant* in them.
>There are several, and one for -- you guessed it -- network/NIC data.
>
>By removing the persistent file(s), udev will rebuild it with the
>correct/current info.
>
>This is how you install on one platform and put that disk into another.:
>Remove the udev persistant rules in the post-install.

Phil,
This is exactly what I did, I moved the file out altogether.
Should I have simply removed the line in it? It recreated the
file next boot with the old mac address only to still cause issues!

Thanks,
jlc




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