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udev

reload rules

udevadm control --reload-rules

Network Adapters

Check this file:
/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules

vmware trick for persistent nic names

in: /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules do something like

# PCI device 0x1022:0x2000 (pcnet32)
SUBSYSTEM=="net", DRIVERS=="?*", KERNELS=="0000:00:11.0", NAME="eth0"

# PCI device 0x1022:0x2000 (pcnet32)
SUBSYSTEM=="net", DRIVERS=="?*", KERNELS=="0000:00:12.0", NAME="eth1"


Note that in KERNELS is the lspci for the nic.