For a while now, I have been running a server with two ethernet cards in. In /etc/networks/interfaces I defined the basic interface as eth0 and eth1, but in order to create some additional psuedo ip addresses on my lan I created eth1:0, eth1:1 ... with static ip addresses.
A couple of days ago I wanted to test something so changed /etc/networks/interfaces and turned all eth1 into eth0 addresses and vica versa. However, now - when I reboot, I still end up with an additional eth1:0 interface - and this seems to stop my dhcp server starting. The reference to eth1:0 is no longer in /etc/networks/interfaces (its been changed to eth0:0) and I have grep'ed all of /etc/ and /var/lib looking for references but can't find any. When interfaces apparently appear out of nowhere, I suspect hotplug/udev, and in /etc/udev there is a script called persistent-net-generator.rules which in its comments says it is storing the created interfaces so that they stay the same across reboots. But I can't figure out how its supposed to work. Can someone explain what it is doing, and if so how I can tell if this is the cause of my problem. Thanks. -- Alan Chandler http://www.chandlerfamily.org.uk -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]