On 4. April 2014 05:43:10 MESZ, Stephen Powell <zlinux...@wowway.com> wrote: >On Thu, 03 Apr 2014 22:14:28 -0400 (EDT), Michael Biebl wrote: >> >> Actually, this doesn't tell the whole story. While it is true, that >> upstream has deliberately removed that feature (for the reasons you >> mentioned, renaming network interfaces within the same namespace is >> racy), in the Debian udev package we decided to keep the old network >> interface naming scheme and make the new predictable interface names >[0] >> explicitly opt-in [1]. > >Yes, for the change in interface names to work properly, one must >specify net.ifnames=1 as a kernel boot option when using a kernel >compiled from Debian kernel sources. >> >> So even in jessie, we still ship >> /lib/udev/rules.d/75-persistent-net-generator.rules which is >responsible >> for creating /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules. > >You may ship it, but it doesn't actually work. It may be useful during >installation, but if you erase the file after installation, it does not >get re-created, and if you add a new NIC after installation, the new >data for the new card does not get appended. Are you saying that, in >the >Debian version of systemd, this is supposed to work? If that is your >claim, >then in Debian, this is a bug after all. If it doesn't work it's a bug
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