Andrew Haley wrote (on 04-Apr-2012 at 09:55 +0100): ... > It's because in the old scheme when a machine had several ports the > mapping between the physical hardware and the dev nodes was not > fixed: > the kernel would just assign names as it found interfaces. This > caused a fair bit of inconvenience. I applaud the wish to have consistent naming. I wish to have a consistent name for a given MAC address, and I wish that to be eth0. There is clearly a mechanism for this, since an upgrade (rather than a clean install) appears to do it. But it seems to be buried many layers deep in udev spells :-( > > From my side, I have a "no longer supported" SW product that > > licenses itself against the MAC address of ETH0. Yep, ETH0 and > > not any other name. > Put a symlink in? OK. Gizza clue: what would the symlink be, where would one insert it, and what effect would it have ? Would, for example, ifconfig or ip recognise the new name and show results using it ? Would one end up with two apparent "interfaces" ? Thanks, Chris -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
