Gutsy and renumbered network interfaces?

[Marius Gedminas]

On Wed, Jun 20, 2007 at 08:27:19AM -0400, Matthew Carpenter wrote:
> On Wednesday 20 June 2007, Andreas Schildbach wrote:
> > Does anyone know why since a recent "apt-get dist-upgrade" on Gutsy my
> > Ethernet is now mapped to eth3 (was: eth0) and my WLAN to eth2 (was: eth1)?
> >
> > Is this a bug, or is it intentional?
> 
> I'm not running Gutsy yet, but could it have anything to do with /etc/iftab?  
> This one bit me recently with VMs, where I copied a VM and suddenly I had no 
> eth0 but an eth1, because the MAC address had changed.

I think I've read on this list that Gutsy no longer uses /etc/iftab, but
/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules to record the mapping from MAC
addresses to interface names.

Marius Gedminas
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