Am Montag 26 März 2007 19:26 schrieb Florian Weimer: > * Russ Allbery: > > There's actually some stuff in udev or some related package to deal with > > this, but I can't ever seem to find it when I need it. I think this is > > actually a documentation bug more than a functionality bug; we just need > > a better guide on how to do it. You can, somehow, assign persistant > > device name mappings by MAC address. > > Actually, udev does this automatically. John's complaint is that this > process doesn't reuse existing slots freed by hardware changes. > > > One of the problems is that whenever you look for something about how to > > fix this, you end up with ifrename, which in my experience doesn't work > > well with udev. > > ifrename has been completely superseded by udev, just edit > /etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent-net.rules and assign the names you > want. > > The trouble is that nowadays, the kernel does not assign predictable > interface names, and an increasing number of systems has got more than > one Ethernet interface. The downside is that typical Debian > installations aren't cloneable anymore.
You only need to delete /etc/udev/rules.d/z25_persistent*.rules before udev runs. That should be doable and could be a configuration option. The default should stay as-is. HS
