On Wed, Jun 22, 2016 at 08:08:38AM +0100, Simon Hobson wrote:
>But once you go down the route of udev (or equivalent, eg vdev) and
>persistent rules, then "eth0" is just a subset of "admin set interface
>name".

The problem with udev and eth0 is, that you have race conditions if you
let udev rename the interfaces with names from the kernel space. I have
seen these race conditions more than once.
So it is a good idea to use names that the kernel is not using.

Shade and sweet water!

    Stephan

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