On Sun, Aug 20, 2017 at 10:36:00PM -0400, Hendrik Boom wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 20, 2017 at 01:41:57PM -0400, Gary Olzeke wrote:
> > my ignorance may be showing here:
> > I am surprised that there isn't an fstab-style record of MACs to ethX/wlanX
> > that way a MOTD-style popup could alert for a change or/ confirmation on
> > default
> > action.
>
> When my laptop connects to my server and requests n IP number with
> DHCP, the server has a log of what IP numbers it has recently assigned
> to what clienf MAC addresses, and uses the same ones if they are still
> available, which is almost always.
>
> Why not use a similar mechanism for interface names? remember which
> names were recently used and use them again?
>
> This sounds a lot like the fstab-like proposal, except it
> autoconfigures.

You mean, /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules which has been removed
in favour of completely-un-"predictable" names, right?

It has a very user unfriendly syntax, but it did just what you suggest.

Meow!
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