Greg KH (greg@xxxxxxxxx) said: > > Today, port naming is completely nondeterministic. If you have but > > one NIC, there are few chances to get the name wrong (it'll be eth0). > > If you have >1 NIC, chances increase to get it wrong. > > That is why all distros name network devices based on the only > deterministic thing they have today, the MAC address. I still fail to > see why you do not like this solution, it is honestly the only way to > properly name network devices in a sane manner. > > All distros also provide a way to easily rename the network devices, to > place a specific name on a specific MAC address, so again, this should > all be solved already. No, it's not solved. Even if you have persistent names once you install, if you ever re-image, you're likely to get *different* persistent names; the first load will always be non-detmerministic. The only way around this would be to have some sort of screen like: Would you like your network devices to be enumerated by [ ] MAC address [ ] PCI device order [ ] Driver name [ ] Other which is just all sorts of fail in and of itself. Especially since once you get to the point where you can coherently ask this in a native installer, the drivers have already loaded. Bill -- 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
