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Author: Hendrik Boom
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To: dng
Subject: Re: [DNG] Predictable Network Interface Names - Stupid or good idea?
On Sat, Jan 09, 2016 at 09:19:33PM +0100, Anto wrote:
>
> On 09/01/16 19:44, shraptor wrote:
> >On 2016-01-09 19:17, Anto wrote:
> >
> >>On the topic. It would be quite interesting how vdev will be (or is)
> >>managing this network interface naming assignment. Do you have any
> >>comment on this, Jude?
> >
> >vdev uses by default old naming convention but has a file
> >called /etc/vdev/ifnames.conf where you can set names arbitrarily.
> >
> >Example ifnames.conf that is auto-generated at compile time
> >(only covered up my mac addresses)
> >
> ># Format:
> ># PERSISTENT_INTERFACE_NAME mac|devpath MATCH_ARGUMENT
> ># * PERSISTENT_INTERFACE_NAME is the persistent name of the
> >network interface
> ># * If the second argument is "mac", then MATCH_ARGUMENT is the
> >colon-separated MAC address
> ># * If the second argument is "devpath", then MATCH_ARGUMENT is
> >the device path to the NIC in sysfs
> >#
> ># Example: a wireless USB dongle, to be named "wlan-edimax"
> >#
> ># Using the "mac" match:
> ># wlan-edimax mac 80:1F:02:D3:B2:83
> >#
> ># Using the "devpath" match:
> ># wlan-edimax devpath
> >/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.0/usb1/1-1/1-1.1/1-1.1:1.0
> >
> >eth0 mac XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
> >wlan0 mac XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
>
> Thanks shraptor,
>
> It looks good to me.
>
> I have been trying to do the same on udev to have persistent
> interface name according to the MAC address, e.g. by following the
> tips on http://wiki.networksecuritytoolkit.org/nstwiki/index.php/Network_Setup_Tips,
> but no joy so far. Perhaps it always fails because I am using eudev
> instead of systemd-udev. So I just use the workaround to have
> net.ifnames=0 on my kernel command line until we have vdev package
> on Devuan repository.


And when the vdev package lands on the Devuan repository couold we please
have a jessie package or backport for it? Even though jessie is
supposed to be stable?

-- hendrik

>
> Cheers,
>
> Anto
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