I haven't paid too much attention to the thread, but here's what I do on my
SLES servers to correct the names based on mac address sequence. It doesn't
differentiate between internal and external, but a little more logic might do
it.
echo > /etc/udev/rules.d/30-net_persistent_names.rules
macs=( `ifconfig -a |grep eth |awk '{print $5}' |awk ' { gsub("[A-Z]","&");
print }' | tr '[A-Z]' '[a-z]'|sort -f` )
for element in $(seq 0 $((${#ma...@]} -1)))
do
mac=${macs[$element]}
echo 'SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", SYSFS{address}=="'$mac'",
IMPORT="/lib/udev/rename_netiface %k eth'$element'"'
>>/etc/udev/rules.d/30-net_persistent_names.rules
done
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of "Andreas Bergstrøm"
Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2010 8:43 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Consistent Network Device Naming for LOMs coming...
Robin Bowes skrev:
> I also agree that this seems silly.
>
> Surely the problem here is unpredictable ordering of NICs, not the
> actual *name* of the NIC?
>
> 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.
Personally, I welcome this change. Predictable ordering of NICs will be
very welcome. And since I understand this was rejected for kernel space,
thus making it impossible to do in ethX name space, another name seems
necessary.
Personally I found ethomX most logical of the names suggested thus far.
(EnX makes me think OS X machine).
However, couldn't the entire naming issue be alleviated by adding symlinks
from ethX to ethomX/enX/lomX to ensure backwards compatibility while
making things easier to setup on multi-NIC machines?
Regards,
--
Andreas Bergstrøm
Østfold University College
Dept. of Informatics
http://media.hiof.no
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