Replacement motherboard, renumbered NICs and dvd drives?

[Adam Funk]

On 2008-02-27, NoOp wrote:

> I just tested by renaming /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules to
> /etc/udev/rules.d/x-70-persistent-net.rules-x on a test machine and
> rebooted. /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules was not regenerated.
>
> So then I kept the file and just deleted all of the entried & rebooted.
> No entries are generated (expected).
>
> I would just modify and then
> sudo /etc/init.d/udev restart
> sudo /etc/init.d/networking restart
> or reboot.
...
> It I want eth1 to be the nic with the mac address of 00:0c:by:by:by:by I
> simply swap the NAME="eth0" to NAME="eth1" and swap the name for the xz.
> If I want to take out the USB (xy), I can either comment out or delete.

I commented out the obsolete entries, changed "eth2" to "eth0" in the
last one, updated /etc/network/interfaces, and restartd udev and
networking.  It worked the second time, when I did `sudo ifdown -a`
first.

Something very similar sorted out the drive symlinks (cdrom3, dvdrw2,
etc.).

Thanks for the advice!