[clue-tech] ethX goes to eth(X+1) after restore from dump

[chris fedde]

it's kind of a mess but it has to do with cruft left over in
/etc/iftab after the move.  comment out the entry you see there and
reboot.

On Tue, Nov 17, 2009 at 5:04 PM, mike havlicek <mhavlicek1 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I have been restoring jeos ubuntu VMs in ESX3i from level 0 dumps and have
> found that if the dump is made on a system with eth3, a restore from that dump results in a system that identifies the interface as eth4. I have no clue how the number gets assigned. Any hints about how to control the name assigned to the interface?
>
> Thanks
>
> -Mike
>
>
>
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