On Wed, 6 Aug 2014, Samuel Sieb wrote:
On 08/06/2014 10:48 AM, Michael Hennebry wrote:
wrote:
For a longer time udev shipped support for assigning permanent "ethX"
names to certain interfaces based on their MAC addresses.
This turned out to have a multitude of problems, among them:
this required a writable root directory which is generally not available;
Huh? Why would that require a writeable root directory?
There was a file in /etc/udev/rules.d/ that kept track of the mapping
from devices to the ethX names.
Soft link it to something under /var .
the statelessness of the system is lost as booting an OS image on a
system will result in changed configuration of the image;
on many systems MAC addresses are not actually fixed,
such as on a lot of embedded hardware and particularly
How do MAC addresses get changed on embedded systems?
Some ethernet hardware on embedded systems doesn't have built-in MAC
addresses.
Not having any is not the same as changed.
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