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On 2021-11-30, Grant Taylor <gtaylor@×××××××××××××××××××××.net> wrote: |
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> Besides, it's a LOT easier to /just/ `tcpdump -nni eth0` when logging |
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> into a machine than it is to have to figure out the interface name first. |
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Yep. I always add udev rules to rename the boards net0, net1, etc. |
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based don the MAC addresses. |
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> That being said, I was okay with what CentOS 6.x did, where the new name |
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> was matched against the MAC address. I had eth0 based on MAC for |
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> outside and eth1 based on MAC for inside on a number of systems. |
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IIRC, there are situations where using udev rules to rename them |
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"ethN" based on MAC addresses will fail because that can conflict with |
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the low-level kernel names. Or something like that. |
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Grant (the other one) |
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