On 29/04/12 15:18,
paiv...@gmail.com wrote:
> Tony van der Hoff<
to...@vanderhoff.org> writes:
>
> > In trying to track down some networking problems, I swapped the
> > ethernet adapter in my server. Since re-booting, it has been assigned
> > the moniker eth2 rather than eth1 (the motherbaord device is eth0).
>>
> > So, how do I reset the second adapter to become eth1 again?
>
> Look at /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules
>
> Create a similar file, with the mac id of the card you want a specific
> device id as ATTR(address ... etc and NAME="eth1"
>
> Before you do that -- chances are you have already another device
> configured to run as eth1, so look at the other files / other lines in
> that file and see which device is configured to work as eth1.
>
Thank you all for the helpful replies. It's all working fine again :)