On Thu, 12.05.16 11:52, Chris Friesen (cbf...@mail.usask.ca) wrote: > On 05/12/2016 11:35 AM, Reindl Harald wrote: > > > > > >Am 12.05.2016 um 19:20 schrieb Chris Friesen: > >>Could someone point me to the commit that removed support for assigning > >>"ethX" names based on MAC addresses? > >> > >>Alternately, can someone suggest a way to get equivalent behaviour (the > >>ability to set "ethX" names based on MAC address) using the current > >>infrastructure? (Preferably as of RHEL 7, so systemd 219 plus a bunch of > >>patches.) > > > >it was not removed - boot with "net.ifnames=0 biosdevname=0" > > > >just use network.service on RHEL7 as all the time before and enter the MAC in > >the ifcfg-file as all the time before > > On > https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PredictableNetworkInterfaceNames/ > it says: > > "For a longer time udev shipped support for assigning permanent "ethX" names > to certain interfaces based on their MAC addresses. This turned out to have > a multitude of problems.....As a result support for this has been removed > from systemd/udev a while back." > > If that is not accurate then maybe it should be updated.
It is accurate. What has been removed is the support for assigning *permanent* names in the eth* namespace. If you don't care about that then just use net.ifnames=0 or so, and you'll get your eth* names back, but they will be assigned in a non-predictable way, and might change at every boot (unless of course you only have a single ethernet device in your systems). Lennart -- Lennart Poettering, Red Hat _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list systemd-devel@lists.freedesktop.org https://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
