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

[Frank W. <Fra...@ct...>]

Hi,

being a complete ignorant about how udev works internally, I wonder if
it would be possible to put multiple entries in 70-persistent-net.rules,
eg.

ma:cc:ad:dr:es:s1 is eth0
ma:cc:ad:dr:es:s2 is eth0

ma:cc:ad:dr:es:s3 is eth1
ma:cc:ad:dr:es:s4 is eth1


Plan B:
If that doesn't work (or can be hacked to work easily) I'd favour a
solution which handles multiple etc-mods.tar.bz2 entirely. This would
probably be interesting for other people/problems too (someone wanted to
be able to roll back to the previous config recently)

We'd need the following:

*) save-config would need to be able to attach a label (that would go
into the filename) and maybe a description.

*) a way to specify which config is 'hot': there used to be boot options
that specified where the config-file is and what it is called. See if
it's still there and if it works.

*) a tool to manage config files
	list,
	delete,
	copy,
	specify 'hot' file at next boot.

What do you think? I'd be willing to invest some time into this if this
can make us all happy...

Frank


Heiko Zuerker wrote:
> I took a quick look at our network init script.
> I'm not sure about a good place to put the nameif line, since we may
> required the module to be loaded first.
> Honestly I'd rather stick with just the udev solution for now, but I'm
> open to suggestions.
> 
> Heiko
> 



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