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Domsch: Consistent Network Device Naming coming to Fedora 15

Domsch: Consistent Network Device Naming coming to Fedora 15

Posted Jan 28, 2011 12:37 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Domsch: Consistent Network Device Naming coming to Fedora 15 by dlang
Parent article: Domsch: Consistent Network Device Naming coming to Fedora 15

What problem has tying to a MAC address given you? It should only cause problems if you change MACs all the time, and who does that?


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Domsch: Consistent Network Device Naming coming to Fedora 15

Posted Jan 30, 2011 15:47 UTC (Sun) by rwmj (subscriber, #5474) [Link]

Welcome to the world of virtualization :-)

70-persistent-net.rules is a constant source of trouble when V2V-ing, migrating and cloning virtual machines.

In any case, the change mentioned in this article has nothing to do with udev's persistent naming, and all to do with how the network interfaces are named when you first install an OS. It's a reasonably sensible change, although given that this driven from the BIOS, there is plenty of room for BIOS vendors to fsck things up as they normally do.

Rich.

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