Re: piece of mind (Re: Moderated posts?)
Hi Miles,
On 10/14/2014 16:54, Miles Fidelman wrote:
> Actually, udev is the ONLY thing I've had issues with in over a decade
> of production use. Changed out a nic card, and everything changed -
> because udev decided to assign the new interface to some other port (or
> some such - it's been a while). A completely unexpected behavior, hard
> to track down, poorly documented. Given that the players are the same,
> and the scope is much larger, this gives me lots of reservations about
> systemd.
In a quest to ensure your personal happiness the systemd maintainers
took your problem and changed udev to assign predictable names to
network interfaces. See [1], note that "Stable interface names even when
hardware is added or removed, i.e. no re-enumeration takes place" is
listed as a feature.
Ansgar
[1]
<http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PredictableNetworkInterfaceNames/>
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