reassign 615600 netcfg retitle 615600 Please allow selecting interface by its MAC address thanks Quoting Thomas Mieslinger (thomas.mieslinger@1und1.de): > To get my job done all those 5000 Machines must comply to some very > very basic guidelines. After the installation, the inner interface > is always eth0 if there is a public interface, it is eth1. If there > are crosslinks they are eth1 and onward. > > I need a simple and powerful mechanism to enforce this against the > quirks of udev and bioses. You may want to develop the needed support for such things in netcfg. From what I read of Joey's answer, a solution could be allowing to specify the wanted interface by its MAC address, in netcfg, through a specific boot parameter...or s specific handling of the existing "interface" parameter.
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