I have a box with 3 ethernet interfaces (which for some reason appear in a different order from boot to boot, but that's another issue). This change in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifup-eth between F8 and F9 breaks device renaming in some cases: - if [ "${FOUNDMACADDR}" != "${HWADDR}" ]; then + if [ "${FOUNDMACADDR}" != "${HWADDR}" -a "${FOUNDMACADDR}" != "${MACADDR}" ]; then If eth0 is renamed to dev1234 and has the MAC of the interface desired to be eth1 (e.g. HWADDR is set in ifcfg-eth1), dev1234 (HWADDR) will not be renamed to eth1 unless there is already an eth1 (to get a non-empty FOUNDMACADDR) or you _also_ put a MACADDR line (with the same value as HWADDR) in ifcfg-eth1. Since the sysconfig.txt doc says use of MACADDR "in conjunction with HWADDR= may cause unintended behavior", that's probably a bad requirement.
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