Re: [Devil-linux-develop] Feature request - Enable "nameif" to associate MAC address with correct interface name.

[Bruce S. <bw...@re...>]

Are you saying that /etc/mactab does the same thing as
/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules ?

If so, should we do the same thing two different ways?

 - BS


On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 11:30, Steve Ralph <Ste...@sa...> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> As part of my investigations to the
> "/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules" issue reported just now, I
> discovered the "/sbin/nameif" program, which reads the file "/etc/mactab" if
> it exists, and associates interface names with mac-address.
>
> It has to be run prior to the interface(s) starting, so I envisage it hooked
> into "/etc/init.d/network" to be called only if the file "/etc/mactab"
> exists. "jiim-barber" on one of the debian lists offers "[ -x /sbin/nameif ]
> && [ -r /etc/mactab ] && /sbin/nameif " as a code-frag that could be
> included in "/etc/init.d/network".
>
> The format of "/etc/mactab" is:
>
>         #--- /etc/mactab : associate network interfaces with MAC address
>         #
>         eth0    00:08:02:01:02:03
>         eth1    00:08:02:01:02:04
>         eth2    00:08:02:01:02:05
>         #
>         #--- End
>
> I'd assume that the default config would *not* include "/etc/mactab" which
> would only be created if the default udev-assignment needed to be modified.
>
> If this feature doesn't make it into release 1.4 I'll not be upset.
>
> Regards - Steve.