Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 2 Aug 2007 21:45:54 -0700 (PDT) | From | david@lang ... | Subject | Re: renaming kernel devices [was: VIA EPIA EK: strange eth dev numbering] |
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On Thu, 2 Aug 2007, Ondrej Zajicek wrote:
> > On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 01:47:23PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: >> It does not rename ethX to the "next free" one, but to a _persistent_ one. >> If it were a "next free" thing, then removing a card would shuffle all >> your eth around again (and invalidate your iptables rules at the same >> time, to note). > > It is questionable what is _persistent_ . MAC-based names are persistent > with regard to adding and removing of other cards, 'Plain' names are persistent > with regard to replacing that card with different item (of a same kind). > > I am very happy that (using 'plain' names) i can send technician to > replace broken NIC in our routers without need for configuration > change.
this is a very important point, and with the distros (and many kernel people) treating udev as a requirement this is going to bite a lot of people.
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