[NTLUG:Discuss] UDEV rules not working

[VanSchuyver, Shawn (Contractor)]

Hello everybody,
   I hope everyone is staying dry. I have an issue I hope you will be
able to help me with.

I am running SUSE SLED 10. I have many servers of different ages, makes,
and models that have multiple network cards: motherboard built-in plus
extra NICs.  I have defined the following rules under /etc/udev/rules.d/
in 10-local.rules to force the first 3Com network card to be eth0.  The
rules only work about 80% of the time. I cannot figure out why the other
20% fails.

Even if there are more than 2 NICs there will only be 1 3Com network
card. The 3Com NIC has to be eth0.

UDEV RULES: 10-local.rules

KERNEL=="eth*", SYSFS{vendor}="3Com Corporation", Name:="eth0"
KERNEL=="eth*", SYSFS{Vendor}="3Com Corporation", Name:="eth0"
KERNEL=="eth*", SYSFS{VENDOR}="3Com Corporation", Name:="eth0"


Suggestions? Comments? 





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