I installed a 4 Port NIC from Sun microsystems.
Im on Debian Jessie 8.1
It kept changing Mac Address on every boot and assigning more and more increasing eth* names to the interface.
I found the solution.
Set up static Ip with non eth* name like wan* or net*
Go to /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules and delete all entries.
Reboot
Make sure eth* eth* eth* eth* are up using ifconfig eth* up
Go back to 70-persistent-net.rules and change the NAME="" feild to new name wan* net*
Then make a new file in /etc/udev/rules.d/ called 99-local-net.rules and follow this article http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2168431
to create a rule based on Kernel.
and lastly Go to http://www.freedesktop.org/software/sys ... .link.html /lib/systemd/network/99-default.link
and change MacAddressPolicy: From Persistent to Random
You could make a proper 99-default.link .link file if you wanted but my interfaces were up and renamed and stable with reboots.
No more random mac address changes or eth* increasing.
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