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       creating your network configuration files.</para>
 
+      <para>Even if the custom udev rule file is created, udev may still
+      assign one or more alternative names for a NIC based on physical
+      characteristics.  If a custom udev rule would rename some NIC using
+      a name already assigned as an alternative name of another NIC, this
+      udev rule will fail.  If this issue happens, you may create the
+      <filename>/etc/udev/network/99-default.link</filename> configuration
+      file with an empty alternative assignment policy, overriding the
+      default configuration file
+      <filename>/usr/lib/udev/network/99-default.link</filename>:</para>
+
+<screen role="nodump"><userinput>sed -e '/^AlternativeNamesPolicy/s/=.*$/=/'  \
+    -i /usr/lib/udev/network/99-default.link \
+     > /etc/udev/network/99-default.link</userinput></screen>
     </sect3>