rainer,

thank you very much; i ran into this problem several times (newer debian sarge and etch) and this solution works pretty well!

cu
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Just had a similar problem with RedHat Enterprise Linux 4 (RHEL4). These files don't exist, but I was able to determine that "/etc/init.d/network restart" solved my problem. My recollection from Ubuntu is that the method should work there too.

I ran into this problem on Debian Etch. If the vm only has one interface you can disable udev's interface cache by renaming the following rules:

/etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules --> /etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules.disabled
/etc/udev/rules.d/z45_persistent-net-generator.rules --> /etc/udev/rules.d/z45_persistent-net-generator.rules.disabled

The upside of this solution is that, as long as the vm only has one interface, it will always be named eth0, even if the mac address changes.

The downside is that you will probably have to use manually configured mac addresses if you want any reliability with multiple interfaces. But this is true in the case of the other suggested remedies also.

hi Lance;

Your solution also applies to ubuntu 8.10 server edition .

thank you.

Same problem after a conversion of an Ubuntu server.

Your script DID fix it! Thanks!