Force udev to reassign ethX identifiers in Ubuntu 8.04
by Paul Kiddie • November 20, 2009 • linux, networking • 0 Comments
Quick tip: If you have replaced your network cards in Ubuntu 8.04, or in my case imaged a Ubuntu install across many PC’s, and would like udev to redetect network cards and reassign ethX identifiers beginning with eth0, run the following command. sudo mv /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules.old Then reboot the machine, and udev will recreate 70-persistent-net.rules, [...]
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