On Sat, Oct 10, 2009 at 20:11, Bill Fink <billfink@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > No comment on the specific implementation decision, but I am in the > process of setting up a large number of test systems with identical > hardware configurations, and using a master disk image to clone all the > test systems. The biggest pain in this process is identiying the MAC > addresses for each of the six or more network interfaces in each test > system (we want eth0...ethN to always reference the same physical port > on the test systems), and then having to modify the 70-persistent-net.rules > udev file and the HWADDR entry for all the ifcfg-ethX files to reflect > the correct MAC addresses. It would be fantastic if there were some > mechanism for making this part of the process unnecessary. Udev creates the persistent rules only if no other rule set a name. Adding something like: SUBSYSTEM=="net", KERNEL==""eth*", NAME="eth%n" in any earlier rules file before the udev generated one will skip all off the automatic udev rule creation. Kay -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-hotplug" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
