udev-104-r9 ruins net connection, can be fixed

[agrypa1]

Hi,
I just wanted to share that upgrading from udev-087-r1 (stable on amd64) to udev-104-r9 (laso marked stable for amd64 just recently) ruined my internet connection. Bu it can be fixed. The trouble is that two firewire interfaces become eth0 and eth1 with new udev-104-r9 (ethernet card becoming eth2) That puts one in trouble if the ethernet interface was eth0 under udev-087-r1!!
The common error will read: eth0 is not Ethernet or Token Ring device

Quick fix:
rm -f /etc/init.d/net.eth0
ln -s /etc/init.d/net.lo /etc/init.d/net.eth2

And then in /etc/conf.d/net one has to change all the settings used for "eth0" and replace them with "eth2".

After that net.eth2 is to be added in the default runlevel for the kernel used.

eselect rc delete net.eth0 default
eselect rc add net.eth2 default
regards,

Agryppa
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Create a udev rule to rename eth0 to "lan" or "inet", or any other name you fancy.

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