Re: Proposal: enable stateless persistant network interface names
On Fri, 8 May 2015 00:28:44 -0700, Josh Triplett
<josh@joshtriplett.org> wrote:
>Marc Haber wrote:
>>I have tried this just last week and have found it kind of
>>unsatisfactory that it doesn't work in virtualized environments. For
>>example, in a KVM VM with virtio ethernet, the network devices still
>>end up in the system as eth0, eth1, eth2.
>
>As I understand it, that's intentional and expected, for two reasons.
>First, because on a virtual machine, the network interfaces are likely
>to be more stable, always showing up with the same numbers. And second,
>because there's little else to go on when naming them.
That would mean changing local code to _both_ handle en* and eth*,
which is (a) a surprise and (b) unsatisfying in _my_ personal opinion.
I'd rather have it fully and consistently or not at all.
Greetings
Marc
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