-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tue, May 17, 2016 at 03:36:58PM +0200, Elimar Riesebieter wrote:
[...] > I don't understand why "init.d/networking restart is deprecated" is > scaring off people? It is a matter of fact! Reading the results will > give all answers a user want. No, *you* are scaring off people :-) > Well, you must be sure that all interfaces in your system get their > assigned names. To make sure they will, you have to define udev > rules, probably by hand if not done by udev itself ( i.e. > /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules). ...you gotta know what you're doing, obviously. [...] > > In my opinion, a warning is in order ("this might not be doing > > what you think it does"), but deprecated seems exaggerated to me. > > On modern systems running systemd (and in some circumstances > sysvinit sytems as well) you may get unwanted if names. So > users have to keep their eyes on what is deprecated (which may be > valid only for future updates) and can be obtained on legacy > installations as well. Just FYI: > > https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PredictableNetworkInterfaceNames/ - my system is modern and is not running systemd - I never get unwanted names. I know I might get some and I know how to cope with that when it comes up > > So rely on the kernel in naming network interfaces is nothing else > as a guess. WorksForMe (TM) > Sigh Snort - -- tomás -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux) iEUEARECAAYFAlc7IIkACgkQBcgs9XrR2kaYCgCXX5F9GQ64oqZmv2htmy+HtNOO LQCaA7vsT4m/1Ev7R7yqDz7Rqd80iIQ= =3ZhM -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----