On Thu, 2008-05-29 at 10:40 +0100, Colin Guthrie wrote:

> Your explanation sounds plausible tho'. I have actually removed the old
> eth0 and bumped all the interfaces around manually so I guess it's
> renaming them all to ensure the old eth0 device still has room.
>
> Will follow up on Sunday/Monday.

Ten to one the classic /etc/udev/rules.d/61-net_config.rules has
something to do with it.
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adamw