On Apr 20, Gabor Gombas <gombasg@sztaki.hu> wrote: > > No, ifrename cannot be used with udev because it cannot know that the > > name of an interface has changed and will not be able to correctly > > deliver the hotplug events. > I do not understand how hotplug events enter the picture. I do not use udev receives the hotplug event for eth0 udev starts dispatching the event for eth0 udev runs ifrename which renames eth0 to eth1 udev cannot detect this and continues dispatching the event for eth0 Result: programs run after ifrename (like ifupdown...) will get the old name. -- ciao, Marco
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