On Wed, Dec 14, 2016 at 02:14:57PM +0000, Brian wrote: > On Wed 14 Dec 2016 at 14:03:09 +0100, David Jardine wrote: > > > On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 08:54:07PM -0600, David Wright wrote: > > [...] > > > > > > When I ran machines containing two identical ethernet cards, it > > > was lucky dip as to which card got which name. That alone would > > > have made the new method far preferable, had it been available at > > > the time. > > > > But don't entries in > > /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules > > solve this problem? > > Apparently not. From > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2015/08/msg01083.html > > * The mechanism for providing stable network interface names changed. > Previously they were kept in /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules > which mapped device MAC addresses to the (arbitrary) name they got when > they first appeared (i. e. mostly at the time of installation). As this > had several problems and is not supported any more, this is deprecated in > favor of the "net.ifnames" mechanism. > > And in > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2015/06/msg00018.html > > some 4 weeks ago I sent a first proposal to change persistent network > interface naming away from our current > /lib/udev/rules.d/75-persistent-net-generator.rules (which is > inherently racy and doesn't apply to all virtualized environments) to > udev's "net.ifnames": >
Many thanks for taking the trouble to enlighten this poor benighted creature. It is much appreciated. Cheers, David
