On Wed, Jan 13, 2010 at 11:46:10AM -0600, Domsch, Matt wrote: > The "actual gain" is to provide a deterministic method of naming > network devices, in a stateless manner (e.g. w/o hard-coding MAC > addresses). We don't have deterministic naming today. It only gets > worse as we add more NIC ports. You can use ifrename or udev to rename an interface with kernel abi based on your exported smb name (or other things like mac-based rules). This can be done in the boot script and will be used to all tools. Those tools requiring the ethX name are broken anyway and should be fixed. Gruss Bernd -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
