[Novalug] increasing interface numbers

[Stephen Cicirelli]

Thanks Greg,

I removed all the extra lines in the 70-persistent-net-.rules and then I
commented out the first two lines in
75-persistent-net-generator.rules(ACTION and NAME) and gave it a quick
reboot.  Ta-da!

Now I'm off to bed!

-stephen

On Dec 23, 2007 5:00 PM, greg pryzby <greg at pryzby.org> wrote:

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> look in /etc/udev/rules.d
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> grep eth *
> grep wlan *
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> that should give u a starting place.
>
> the 70 and 75 file has the stuff u care about. I use static on my
> machines and can't remember which it was. I think it is 70 and I remove
> the line on shutdown so the number doesn't increase/
>
> for static, I don't have the problem
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> Stephen Cicirelli wrote:
> > Happy Sunday everyone,
> >
> > I'm running Ubuntu 7.10 on an HP dv6500 Pavilion.
> >
> > Every time the system boot th eth# increases by 1.  I currently have
> > eth21 wlan0 and lo as my interfaces.  My Google-fu seems to be lacking
> > today and I can't find anything about this oddity and how to fix it
> > (although I suppose it is one method of determining how many times I've
> > rebooted the system...)
>
> - --
> greg pryzby                              greg at pryzby dot org
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