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From: "vivo75@×××××.com" <vivo75@×××××.com>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] call for testers: udev predictable network interface names
Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2013 12:24:32
Message-Id: 50F93EEB.4070609@gmail.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-dev] call for testers: udev predictable network interface names by William Hubbs
1 Il 09/01/2013 23:13, William Hubbs ha scritto:
2 > All,
3 >
4 > as you probably know by now, udev-197 has hit the tree.
5 >
6 > This new version implements a new feature called predictable network
7 > interface names [1], which I have currently turned off for live systems, because it
8 > will require migration on the part of the user.
9 >
10 > When you upgrade to this new version of udev, you will find a file
11 > /etc/udev/rules.d/80-net-name-slot.rules on your system. It currently
12 > has comments explaining what is happening.
13 >
14 > As long as this file is in place, this feature is not activated. That is
15 > why there is not a news item. If you do nothing, nothing changes.
16 >
17 > What I would like to do is find some people who are willing to migrate
18 > and report any issues they find.
19 >
20 > I would like this to be the default for everyone at some point, so I
21 > want to document the migration process and find out if there are any
22 > bugs in tools because they expect the eth* names.
23 >
24 > Thoughts?
25 >
26 > William
27 >
28 > [1]
29 > http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PredictableNetworkInterfaceNames
30 Since for servers predictable names are useful and for desktop (which
31 usually have only one ethernet that never change)
32 Is it possible to set desktop profiles to still use ethX, and base
33 profile to use new naming scheme?
34
35 For wireless situation may be different, many of them are external,
36 could wireless be managed differently?

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