Gentoo Archives: gentoo-user

From: Tom H <tomh0665@×××××.com>
To: Gentoo User <gentoo-user@l.g.o>
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] from Firefox52: NO pure ALSA?, WAS: Firefox 49.0 & Youtube... Audio: No
Date: Thu, 29 Dec 2016 09:42:41
Message-Id: CAOdo=SzvwH7G9gWs42iMHdmOJhRaVAP=CDDUv5SjhOY17EqmVA@mail.gmail.com
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-user] from Firefox52: NO pure ALSA?, WAS: Firefox 49.0 & Youtube... Audio: No by lee
1 On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 3:01 PM, lee <lee@××××××××.de> wrote:
2 > Tom H <tomh0665@×××××.com> writes:
3 >> AFAIK, you have three possibilities.
4 >>
5 >> 1) If you're renaming a NIC via its MAC address, you have to edit the
6 >> config file thatlinks the NIC's names and its MAC address.
7 >>
8 >> 2) If you're using udev's predictable names, the NIC'll have the same
9 >> (more or less complex) name if you use the same slot.
10 >>
11 >> 3) If you're using the kernel names, you have no guarantee that ethX
12 >> will be assigned to the same NIC at every bot.
13 >
14 > So there's no good option because names may change unless you make and
15 > maintain an assignment. I wonder why that isn't the default ...
16
17 Because udev upstream chose to default to a setup without having to
18 edit config files for NIC names.