Neil Bothwick: > On Tue, 20 Dec 2016 23:11:08 +0100, lee wrote: > > >> But you already heard of udev rules? I guess I mentioned them > > >> already. They are not so hard to write and they only need to be > > >> written once. > > > It's too late by then, if eth0 and eth1 already exist, you cannot > > > switch them with udev rules - as anyone who had worked with dual NICs > > > would have discovered. > > Can you switch them when they have unrecognisable names? > You can't switch any two names because the udev rules are run singly, so > at one point you will be trying to rename an interface with a name that > is already in use. ...
Not everyone runs udev, and you don't need udev to change the eth name, a few other choises are presented here: https://ivi.fnwi.uva.nl/sne/air//wiki/LogicalInterfaceNames/ Regards, /Karl Hammar ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Aspö Data Lilla Aspö 148 S-742 94 Östhammar Sweden +46 173 140 57
