eth0_rename, how do I get back to plain old eth0? Posted on March 16, 2011 by dpejic I upgraded from Fedora 10 to Fedora 12. Unfortunately, my ethernet interface eth0 is now named eth0_rename. I'd like to get back to having it named plain old eth0. I googled a bit but the solution of removing the eth0 entry from /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules seems to have no effect (I restarted the network service but didn't reboot). The interface works just fine although I could see a script or two having a problem with the format. So, it's more of an inconvenience thing than anything else. Any ideas? Thanks. You need to restart udev instead of your network service since it is the one taking care of device names (among many other things). – honk Mar 31 '10 at 18:05 So a reboot should take care of it. Thanks. – shank Mar 31 '10 at 18:14 1 Answer <input type="hidden" value="126171" /></span> The answer is… remove the corresponding interface lines from /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules and then reboot your machine. Voila, simple eth0, etc interface names again. I suppose I should have rebooted before asking the question but at least now the question and answer are here for others.