[NTLUG:Discuss] Discuss Digest, Vol 54, Issue 5

[Chris Cox]

Shawn VS wrote:
> Thank you for your replies:
>   Thanks to Richard and Jerome I found the issue was
> with UDEV. I modified the UDEV rules in
> /etc/udev/rules.d. I added a line in 10-local.rules as
> such:
> KERNEL=="eth*", SYSFS{vendor}=="3Com Corporation",
> NAME:="eth0"
> 
> This automatically configures the first 3Com card it
> sees as eth0. You also have to take out any defined
> card definitions in 30-net_persistent_names.rules.

While it is conceivable that there might be a recognition
issue in udev, I'm thinking all you really needed to do
was set:

FORCE_PERSISTENT_NAMES=yes

In your /etc/sysconfig/network/config and then
run SuSEconfig

That's what usually works anyhow.

Did you try that?  And... are you using the (broken)
NetworkManager or using ifup/ifdown?  Use ifup/ifdown
and the above should work.