Stephen Hemminger wrote: >>> http://marc.info/?l=linux-netdev&m=125510301513312&w=2 >> Out of interest, that link says that doing it in usespace was rejected, >> but doesn't give any references... I'd be interested to know why this >> wasn't viable - since this seemed like the best fit at first glance - >> most people will never use this, so no need to grow their kernel size >> and complexity? >> >> > > This proposal was to ad changes into every application that > knows about network names (iproute, iptables, snmp, quagga, openswan, ...) > to do aliasing at the application layer. > OK, that's bonkers, but what I was refering to was the line in the linked post which said "Achieve the above in userspace only using udev" - which I assumed meant to do it once in a udev rename rule by adapting /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules , /lib/udev/write_net_rules etc. - which is what I've used to enforce this sort of convention myself from time to time. Tim. -- South East Open Source Solutions Limited Registered in England and Wales with company number 06134732. Registered Office: 2 Powell Gardens, Redhill, Surrey, RH1 1TQ VAT number: 900 6633 53 http://seoss.co.uk/ +44-(0)1273-808309 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-pci" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
