My Linux changed eth0 with eth1…
December 10th, 2008 | by RoarinPenguin |This is happening, for instance, when moving a Virtual Machine from one Server to another or when changing the physical network adapter of a server.
The reason is that NIC’s MAC Address changes, therefore Linux perform a new HW detection and creates new adapter definition, ending in situation where there’s no more eth0 but only eth1… and if /etc/networks was configured to use eth0 it will default to DHCP mode causing issues.
How to solve?
You need to edit file /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules
In this file you will find one line per each network device detected.
For instance in case of detected eth1 and disappeared eth0 it will probably read something like:
SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="00:0c:29:74:1f:c6", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*", NAME="eth0"
SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="00:0c:29:72:6f:c8", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*", NAME="eth1"
where the second entry reports the currently detected MAC address.
How to solve this?
Delete the first line and edit the second line changing "eth1" in "eth0"… then I guess you need to reboot and eth0 will automagically reappear.
