<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;">Hi Edwin:<br><br>I would look at making some custom udev rules.<br><br>Here is a line that renames a certain usb ethernet device usb_eth instead of ethN:<br><br>SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="00:14:d1:*", ATTR{dev_id}=="0x0", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*", NAME="usb_eth"<br><br>Look at the 'add' and 'remove' actions and the 'run' command in your udev rules.<br><br>--cheers<br><br>jan<br></td></tr></table><br>