I am having a problem with auto assignment of network connections.
I have a mint Linux host machine with two nics (eth0,eth1)and vmware workstation running win7 vm. win7 is net bridged to host via eth0. what I am trying to do is create a ghost master to deploy to several machines in a lab environment. the problem is that when I deploy this image to the other computers, the new clients get assigned eth2 & eth3 as active connections leaving eth0 & eth1 in list but dead. This forces me to reassign vmnet0 to bridge with eth2 by hand in each client. Is there any way to configure the master to retain eth0 & eth1 as the active connections in the deployed client automatically?
I have tried every thing I can think of but am about to give up!
thanks,
Greg

I'm not sure how to fix the problem on your master images, but I can tell you where the problem lies. udev ties eth0/1/2/etc to MAC address through the file /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules (the 70 can be a different number on your system depending on what order udev is running the rules).

But I'm not sure what you should do to your master image to fix this other than remove those lines and see if udev will assign them correctly on the new machine.

thanks pljvaldez,
I forgot about net.rules file. i will try this in the morning.
Greg

tried removing entries from rules file in ghost explorer. this seems to work, but leaves artifact entries in connections list (eth0, eth1, auto eth0, auto eth1). will do more testing.