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From: Allan Gottlieb <gottlieb@nyu.edu>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] mobo replaced; eth0 fails
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On Sat, Nov 12 2011, Albert W. Hopkins wrote:

> On Fri, 2011-11-11 at 21:41 -0500, Allan Gottlieb wrote:
>> 3.  Some advised blowing away .../persistent-net.rules.
>>     I chose to modify it so that the new device is now eth0 and the
>>     old
>>     device is gone.
>
> Removing it does the same thing.  The device file is re-created with the
> currently probed hardware and indexes start from 0.  It's just that most
> people prefer to just remove it because it's less typing and less prone
> to errors.

I was worried that then eth0 might be wireless and eth1 wired,
but I should have tried it and only changed names if the switch
happened.

thanks,
allan