Network interface name changed to “renamex”

On VMware virtual machine hot added new virtual network interface (NIC). The newly added network interface is of VMXNET3 type. Initially kernel named the new network interface as “eth0”. Post server reboot network interface device name changed from “eth0” to “rename2”. But the other existing network interface name remains same as “eth1”.

[    3.582159] eth0: NIC Link is Up 10000 Mbpsvmware-suse-guest-vmxnet3-nic
[    3.598345] eth1: NIC Link is Up 10000 Mbps
[    3.741375] udev: renamed network interface eth0 to rename2
[  130.435772] bonding: bond0: Adding slave eth1.

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