On Sun, Aug 20, 2017 at 10:36:00PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote: > On Sun, Aug 20, 2017 at 01:41:57PM -0400, Gary Olzeke wrote: > > my ignorance may be showing here: > > I am surprised that there isn't an fstab-style record of MACs to ethX/wlanX > > that way a MOTD-style popup could alert for a change or/ confirmation on > > default > > action. > > When my laptop connects to my server and requests n IP number with > DHCP, the server has a log of what IP numbers it has recently assigned > to what clienf MAC addresses, and uses the same ones if they are still > available, which is almost always. > > Why not use a similar mechanism for interface names? remember which > names were recently used and use them again? > > This sounds a lot like the fstab-like proposal, except it > autoconfigures.
You mean, /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules which has been removed in favour of completely-un-"predictable" names, right? It has a very user unfriendly syntax, but it did just what you suggest. Meow! -- ⢀⣴⠾⠻⢶⣦⠀ ⣾⠁⢰⠒⠀⣿⡁ Vat kind uf sufficiently advanced technology iz dis!? ⢿⡄⠘⠷⠚⠋⠀ -- Genghis Ht'rok'din ⠈⠳⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀ _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
