[Linux-decnet-user] Debian upgrades

[Patrick C. <pa...@ty...>]

I thought I'd document this as it's a problem that might hit some users.

I just upgraded my sparc box from sarge to etch and bizarrely (it seemed to me)
my ethernet adapter got renamed from eth0 to eth1 (there is only one interface
in the system).

Anyway, it turns out that DECnet's need to change the MAC address confuses the
udev upgrade process, so I ended up with the following lines in

/etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules

SUBSYSTEM=="net", DRIVERS=="?*",ATTRS{address}=="aa:00:04:00:3c:0c", NAME="eth0"
SUBSYSTEM=="net", DRIVERS=="?*",ATTRS{address}=="08:00:20:9c:b0:5b", NAME="eth1"

The solution seems to be to remove the first one and change the second line (now
the only line) back to eth0.

patrick