<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 13 September 2010 11:31, Sunil Gupta <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:sugupta@redhat.com">sugupta@redhat.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
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I have found a peculiar behavior of RHEL6 as KVM guest. If you remove the NIC and add a new one then the udev searches for the eth1 rather than eth0.<br>
<br></blockquote><div><br>As someone else said, this is expected behaviour.<br><br>When you add a new NIC it is assigned a name (eg eth1) in /etc./udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules. Old NICs are not removed.<br><br>You can edit that file, though, and change the names of the NICs. The new names will take effect when the system restarts.<br>
<br>jch</div></div>