Re: [gentoo-user] from Firefox52: NO pure ALSA?, WAS: Firefox 49.0 & Youtube... Audio: No

[lee]

Tom H <tomh0665@×××××.com> writes:

> On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 8:57 PM, lee <lee@××××××××.de> wrote:
>> Tom H <tomh0665@×××××.com> writes:
>
>
>>> [1] There's no need to learn/use the udev rules syntax. I use the
>>> following in "/etc/systemd/network/" on a Debian 8 system with
>>> sysvinit-as-pid1:
>>>
>>> [Match]
>>> MACAddress=can't_be_bothered_to_look_it_up
>>> [Link]
>>> Name=en0
>>
>> Thanks!
>
> You're welcome.
>
>
>> What happens when you replace the card with another one that has a
>> different MAC? Shouldn't an assignment like this rather go by the
>> unrecognisable name? I'd find that more consistent.
>
> AFAIK, you have three possibilities.
>
> 1) If you're renaming a NIC via its MAC address, you have to edit the
> config file thatlinks the NIC's names and its MAC address.
>
> 2) If you're using udev's predictable names, the NIC'll have the same
> (more or less complex) name if you use the same slot.
>
> 3) If you're using the kernel names, you have no guarantee that ethX
> will be assigned to the same NIC at every bot.

So there's no good option because names may change unless you make and
maintain an assignment.  I wonder why that isn't the default ...