I've been using the same old persistent net rules for quite some time and they worked fine until I updated from udev 186 to 189. I realise that the scripts for writing persistent rules have gone but I think that was already the case in 186. The existing rules should still work though. My /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules file is as follows. SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="6c:f0:49:51:d7:e3", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*", NAME="eth0" SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="6c:f0:49:51:d7:f3", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*", NAME="eth1" Under udev 189, it loads these two the wrong way round. I've tried fiddling with the rules like removing ATTR{type} and calling them something other than eth* but to no avail. I've had to drop back to 186 for the moment so I can get my connection back. 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(In reply to comment #0) > SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", > ATTR{address}=="6c:f0:49:51:d7:e3", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*", > NAME="eth0" > SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", > ATTR{address}=="6c:f0:49:51:d7:f3", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*", > NAME="eth1" > > Under udev 189, it loads these two the wrong way round. I've tried fiddling > with the rules like removing ATTR{type} and calling them something other > than eth* but to no avail. I've had to drop back to 186 for the moment so I > can get my connection back. I was informed on #udev that you cannot just swap the device names now; you have to name them something completely different, so try this: SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="6c:f0:49:51:d7:e3", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*", NAME="lan0" SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="6c:f0:49:51:d7:f3", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*", NAME="lan1" Let me know if that works for you.
I tried this before but it didn't work, maybe because I only ran udevadm trigger instead of rebooting. I tried again and it worked this time so thanks. But please mention this somewhere, I didn't find it documented *anywhere*.
I have added ewarns to the ebuild with more information on this issue and pointing to the examples I gave you. Thanks for the report.
Although this bug is closed, those that stray upon it may be interested in this remark: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=782145#c3 In a nutshell, renaming to within the eth* namespace was never safe. I found the upstream bug after learning this the hard way. This also explains why the automatic rule generator functionality was removed.
*** Bug 444604 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
