On Wed, 3 Mar 2021 01:06:55 -0500
Steve Litt <slitt@???> wrote:

>
> On Wed, 3 Mar 2021 13:06:45 +1100
> Ralph Ronnquist via Dng <dng@???> wrote:
>
> > On 03/03 00:19, g4sra via Dng wrote:
> > > ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐ Original Message ‐‐‐‐‐‐‐
> > > On Wednesday, March 3, 2021 12:15 AM, spiralofhope
> > > <spiralofhope@???> wrote:
> > > > On Wed, 3 Mar 2021 01:34:40 +1100
> > > > Ralph Ronnquist via Dng dng@??? wrote:
> > > > > For bare-metal hardware I believe there is a first possible
> > > > > "race" between different modules (that handle different card
> > > > > types), and a second possible "race" for multiple same-type
> > > > > cards, which are handled by the one and same module.
> > >
> > > > I've always found this strange..
> > >
> > > > Is there nothing like hard drives' UUID?
> > >
> > > Yes, MAC Addresses.
> > > Sysadmins are just generally too lazy to use them.
> >
> > Well, this is really a fundamental problem, the "das ding an sich"
> > that Kant brought up some few years ago to the merriment and
> > pleasure of his contemporary philosphical minded peers.
> >
> > But yes, MAC address for network interfaces are alike UUID for
> > partitions in that they are used for identifing the *functions* of
> > devices so that further configurations can be made with respect to
> > those identifications regardless of which actual, physical device
> > implements them (the functions).
>
> Am I hearing correctly when I think you two are saying I can make
> multiple network devices have determinate names (even if I don't
> select those names) by doing something with their MAC addresses? If
> so, how do I do it?
>
> SteveT
>
> Steve Litt
> Autumn 2020 featured book: Thriving in Tough Times
> http://www.troubleshooters.com/thrive
Hi,
you can set the device names by MAC addresses at boot
and in the past it worked as udev/eudev net-persisent-name.rules
(but seems to be broken, optimized out nowadays).

Ciao,
Tito