Re: Consistent device naming

2014-05-14 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 15:35:37 -0700, CLOSE Dave wrote: Bruno Wolff III wrote: To exchange names, you need to use a temporary name and do three renames. Pretty much like swapping to values using a temporary variable. I can't find a way to do that with udev. Please enlighten me. I use "i

Re: Consistent device naming

2014-05-14 Thread Rick Stevens
On 05/14/2014 04:15 PM, Tom Horsley issued this missive: On Wed, 14 May 2014 15:52:35 -0700 Rick Stevens wrote: I believe you can edit /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules and add lines such as: Used to be able to. Maybe there is some magic to allow it, but it seems to have stopped worki

Re: Consistent device naming

2014-05-14 Thread Tom Horsley
On Wed, 14 May 2014 15:52:35 -0700 Rick Stevens wrote: > I believe you can edit /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules and add > lines such as: Used to be able to. Maybe there is some magic to allow it, but it seems to have stopped working by default. -- users mailing list users@lists.fedorap

Re: Consistent device naming

2014-05-14 Thread Rick Stevens
On 05/14/2014 03:35 PM, CLOSE Dave issued this missive: Bruno Wolff III wrote: To exchange names, you need to use a temporary name and do three renames. Pretty much like swapping to values using a temporary variable. I can't find a way to do that with udev. Please enlighten me. I use "ip li

Re: Consistent device naming

2014-05-14 Thread CLOSE Dave
Bruno Wolff III wrote: >>> To exchange names, you need to use a temporary name and do three >>> renames. Pretty much like swapping to values using a temporary >>> variable. >> >> I can't find a way to do that with udev. Please enlighten me. > > I use "ip link set" to do that. I am not sure how you

Re: Consistent device naming

2014-05-14 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 14:12:19 -0700, CLOSE Dave wrote: On 05/13/2014 06:53 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: To exchange names, you need to use a temporary name and do three renames. Pretty much like swapping to values using a temporary variable. I can't find a way to do that with udev. Please

Re: Consistent device naming

2014-05-14 Thread CLOSE Dave
On 05/13/2014 06:53 PM, Bruno Wolff III wrote: > To exchange names, you need to use a temporary name and do three > renames. Pretty much like swapping to values using a temporary > variable. I can't find a way to do that with udev. Please enlighten me. > Another thing to consider is do you reall

Re: Consistent device naming

2014-05-13 Thread Bill Shirley
On 5/13/2014 8:59 PM, CLOSE Dave wrote: On 05/13/2014 05:39 PM, Russell Miller wrote: I want to run the same software on all of these machines and having inconsistent names /between/ the machines makes that next to impossible. Using the new names means that my software has to learn all those d

Re: Consistent device naming

2014-05-13 Thread Bruno Wolff III
On Tue, May 13, 2014 at 17:59:54 -0700, CLOSE Dave wrote: I've done that. The problem seems to be that what I want to do is to /exchange/ the names assigned. One of the renames works but the other fails, claiming the new name is already in use. In other circumstances, I'd use an intermediate n

Re: Consistent device naming

2014-05-13 Thread Russell Miller
On May 13, 2014, at 6:33 PM, Tom Horsley wrote: >> You could learn to love the default udev nomenclature > > Of course the major problem with the new "consistent" names > is they keep changing the software and making the names > consistently different :-). > > The original biosdevname changed

Re: Consistent device naming

2014-05-13 Thread Tom Horsley
> You could learn to love the default udev nomenclature Of course the major problem with the new "consistent" names is they keep changing the software and making the names consistently different :-). The original biosdevname changed two or three times with the names of the ports on my machine cha

Re: Consistent device naming

2014-05-13 Thread CLOSE Dave
On 05/13/2014 05:39 PM, Russell Miller wrote: >> I want to run the same software on all of these machines and >> having inconsistent names /between/ the machines makes that next to >> impossible. Using the new names means that my software has to learn >> all those different names and can't easily

Re: Consistent device naming

2014-05-13 Thread Russell Miller
On May 13, 2014, at 5:33 PM, CLOSE Dave wrote: > > I want to run the same software on all of these machines and having > inconsistent names /between/ the machines makes that next to impossible. > Using the new names means that my software has to learn all those > different names and can't eas

Consistent device naming

2014-05-13 Thread CLOSE Dave
I manage a lab with more than a hundred machines, all doing the same things. Presently they are running Fedora 13 and are obviously sorely overdue for an upgrade. But doing an upgrade is likely to present several issues, one of which I'd like to discuss today. The machines come from several man