Re: eth renaming problm during install
stappers@stappers.nl (Geert Stappers) writes:
> On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 02:41:27PM +0200, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> <snip/>
>> In a recent talk with the udev maintainer I learned that udev can
>> set the device names when the modules are loaded. Maybe it is worth
>> waiting for udev to become generaly usable (needs 2.6.12 kernel in
>> etch for one thing) and skip ifrename hacks.
>
> What algoritme does udev use? MAC address or slot number?
That remains to be implemented. Currently it will just do nothing I
guess and the kernel asignes names as it loads modules.
> Please make replacement of a single NIC possible.
>
>
> Cheers
> Geert Stappers
MfG
Goswin
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