On Sun, 2017-07-16 at 13:54 +0200, Guus Sliepen wrote: > On Sat, Jul 15, 2017 at 10:25:22PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > > > > This will match any interface that has MAC address 01:23:45:67:89:ab, > > > > and will use the "foo" stanzas to configure it. > > > > > > Awesome! This sounds like the best solution so far. > > As Adam discovered, there was still a bug preventing this from actually > working for allow-* interfaces, but a fix has just been uploaded. > > > It is indeed Very Cool, but it might not solve one little thing: > > iptables firewalling. > > > > Is that a way to trigger an ifrename using this, so that the network > > device ends up being named "foo" ? > > That's indeed an interesting issue. Currently, ifupdown doesn't rename > interfaces. You could add a line like: > > post-up ip link set $IFACE name $LOGICAL > > Which will do what you want, except ifupdown doesn't track interface > renames this way and will get very confused. [...] Linux doesn't allow renaming an interface while it's up. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings If the facts do not conform to your theory, they must be disposed of.
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