Fedora 8 not recognizing eth0 after imaging

[Roberto Ragusa]

Paulo Cavalcanti wrote:
> After the imaging eth0 is renamed eth0.bak and the active interface is 
> eth1, but using dhcp.
> What I do is delete eth0.bak using the graphical network tool and make 
> eth1 use a fix IP again,
> restart the network service, and reboot.
> 
> After rebooting, if I want the identifier eth0 back, I move
> 
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth1 to
> 
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
> 
> and edit ifcfg-eth0 to change
> DEVICE=eth1 for DEVICE=eth0
> 
> and then reboot again. If I do anything different, I end up with eth2, 
> eth3, etc ...
> and it is really messy.

In addition to these steps, I recently got in an condition where I had
to manually clean the

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

file, which appeared very confused by the fact that my harddisk had been
moved across three different machines.

Best regards.

-- 
    Roberto Ragusa    mail at robertoragusa.it