Re: Naming of network devices - how to improve it in buster
On Wed, Jul 19, 2017 at 10:53:34PM +0200, Guus Sliepen wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 17, 2017 at 06:22:14PM +0200, Guus Sliepen wrote:
>
> > > Thus, what about this:
> > > auto mac/00:16:0a:26:99:c6/=en0
> > > iface en0 inet6 static
> > > address 3:1415:9265:3589:7932:3846:2643:3832/64
> > > gateway 3:1415:9265:3589::1
> > > rename
> > >
> > > With the rename command taking an optional argument (the new name) that
> > > defaults to the logical name (ie, after =).
> >
> > Yes, that should be implementable.
>
> Actually, that is not as easy as it sounds. It works in the above
> example because mac/00:16:0a:26:99:c6 would still match en0 after the
> rename, but that is not always true. For example, doing auto /eth0/=en0
> means the pattern eth0 matches on ifup, but it no longer matches when
> you do ifdown. Also, ifupdown supports changing the MAC address of an
> interface, so even mac/.../ patterns are problematic.
Well, but on the way up, /eth0/=en0 or mac/.../=en0 will match logical
interface "en0", and on the way down, and subsequent manual ups, it will
match the kernel name "en0". Am I missing something?
> It's better to split it:
>
> rename mac/00:16:0a:26:99:c6/=en0
> auto en0
> iface en0 ...
Slightly more typing, but that'd work, too.
> And do the renames whenever ifup is run, before it processes anything
> else.
That's obvious, in both cases.
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