On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 3:01 PM, lee <l...@yagibdah.de> wrote: > Tom H <tomh0...@gmail.com> writes: >> 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 ...
Because udev upstream chose to default to a setup without having to edit config files for NIC names.
