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

[mike havlicek]

Thanks for the info,

It turns out in my case restoring to a VM that was not the one used to create the dumps together with the contents of

/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistant-net.rules

was problematic.

-Mike
--- On Tue, 11/17/09, chris fedde <chris at fedde.us> wrote:

> From: chris fedde <chris at fedde.us>
> Subject: Re: [clue-tech] ethX goes to eth(X+1) after restore from dump
> To: "CLUE technical discussion" <clue-tech at cluedenver.org>
> Date: Tuesday, November 17, 2009, 5:10 PM
> 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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