On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 03:30:51PM -0500, Sean Dilda wrote: > On 11/15/10 3:20 PM, Robin Bowes wrote: > > > Also, I would imagine that those "pesky LAN-on-Motherboard NICs" are > > actually the ones used by 95% of Dell customers, so changing their name > > to something other than the long-established linux standard is just > > opening up a whole world of unnecessary pain, IMHO. > > > > Along those lines, wouldn't it make much more sense to leave the onboard > NICs alone, since they're what are used most of the time. If you really > must do the renaming, why not rename the add-on NICs?
biosdevname can get names for PCI slotted NICs also. I rename the embedded NICs exactly because they may be misnamed "eth[4-7]" when I have an add-in card installed. Folks, without kernel-side changes which have been rejected, changes that reserved the first N ethX names for on-board devices, we cannot simply swizzle the names within the ethX namespace using udev rules. I wish that weren't true. -- Matt Domsch Technology Strategist Dell | Office of the CTO _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
