Hi all:

I have an student's lab with 120+ PC as Ubuntu 12.04 fat clients
Some of those PC's have two network interfaces
- The first one to boot, tftp and nbd connections
- The second one for students practices, classes, demos and so 

I have two problems related:

- First one: I need to make sure that the interface that receives
bootp/tftp/nbd is named as "eth0"
I've properly setup 70-persistent-net.rules in udev for every PC
but seems to be ignored: interface naming takes place before udev is
started, and the rules file is ignored

- Second one: need that second interface (eth1) get NOT handled anyway
by mean of NetworkManager. I can see that boot interface is set to
"manual" in /etc/network/interfaces, but no other action is taken on
additional interfaces. Moreover: seems that /etc/network/interfaces is
rebuilt at startup

With Ubuntu 10.04 ltsp I solved issue 1 by mean of editting
/usr/share/initramfs-tools/init and force loading network modules in 
proper order before starting udev. But these trick doesn't work with 
12.04 kernels: modules are loaded, but kernel ignores module loading 
order when initializing devices

To solve 2nd issue, i've just removed NetworkManager in fat client, 
but this seems a bit dirty ( not really: students have no reason to
connect bluetooth neither wifi nor Mobile devices to PC's )

Any ideas? propper naming of eth* interfaces is a "must be" for us, 
due to tons of scripts, sudo'd commands and tools required by
the students

Thanks in advance
Juan Antonio


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