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Neil Bothwick: |
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> On Tue, 20 Dec 2016 23:11:08 +0100, lee wrote: |
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> > >> But you already heard of udev rules? I guess I mentioned them |
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> > >> already. They are not so hard to write and they only need to be |
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> > >> written once. |
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> > > It's too late by then, if eth0 and eth1 already exist, you cannot |
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> > > switch them with udev rules - as anyone who had worked with dual NICs |
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> > > would have discovered. |
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> > Can you switch them when they have unrecognisable names? |
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> You can't switch any two names because the udev rules are run singly, so |
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> at one point you will be trying to rename an interface with a name that |
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> is already in use. |
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Not everyone runs udev, and you don't need udev to change the eth name, |
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a few other choises are presented here: |
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https://ivi.fnwi.uva.nl/sne/air//wiki/LogicalInterfaceNames/ |
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Regards, |
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/Karl Hammar |
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