eth0 turned into eth1 after kernel upgrade -- SOLVED!

Moriah · Last edited by Moriah on Thu Mar 26, 2009 8:53 pm; edited 1 time in total

I am running vmware workstation 6.5.1 build 126130 on an XP-pro sp3 host with gentoo as one of the guests. Everything was fine until I did a kernel upgrade from kernel-2.6.22-gentoo-r5 to kernel-2.6.27-gentoo-r8, after which eth0 vanished, and eth1 suddenly appeared in its place. Obviously, this messed up my networking configuration! Now I could edit the networking configuration to live with eth1 instead of eth0, but I would prefer to keep my only [virtual] NIC as eth0. I suspect this is some kind of confusion caused by the device manager. Does anyone know how to fix it?

Thanks!

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Xarthisius · Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2009 8:12 pm Post subject:

Net interfaces are defined in /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules.
You can manually edit this file or just remove it. During next restart udev will generate new rules.
Cheers,
Xarthisius

Moriah · Posted: Thu Mar 26, 2009 8:52 pm Post subject:

Thanks! That did the trick.

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