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Re: Where are located files for Hardware Network configuration ?

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Hi Steve,

Am 09.06.2011 17:53, schrieb Steve:

> When I've got the image running, I've got on my image :
> Hardware xxxx associated to Eth0
>
> Now, if I back and restore the image on a different machine.... The hardware
> which is the same, most of the time, is associated to eth2 or eth3

Thats not only true for different virtual machines it happens even on 
new hardware. udev ist detecting a new network card and creates a new 
entry in /etc/udev/rules.d/xx-persistent-net.rules keeping the old eth0. 
If you remove this file before booting on the new machine it should word.

> The problem is that I cannot start by : service network start
> It cannot find eth0 !!!

The hardware for eth0 is gone :-).

> Where is located the file ( on Fedora 14 ) saying that I have such hardware
> , associated to ethX ?

/etc/udev/rules.d

Regards, Kurt

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Where are located files for Hardware Network configuration  ? Steve <noreply@crap.com> - 2011-06-09 17:53 +0200
  Re: Where are located files for Hardware Network configuration  ? Kurt Harders <harders@khtronik.de> - 2011-06-10 07:56 +0200
    Re: Where are located files for Hardware Network configuration  ? Steve <noreply@crap.com> - 2011-06-10 09:13 +0200

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