proposal:supply a way to allow to change ethernet name.

[Antoni Segura Puimedon]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Fabian Deutsch" <fabiand at redhat.com>
> To: arch at ovirt.org
> Sent: Tuesday, April 2, 2013 12:11:55 PM
> Subject: Re: proposal:supply a way to allow to change ethernet name.
> 
> Am Dienstag, den 26.03.2013, 20:13 +0800 schrieb bigclouds:
> > hi,all
> >     i take the liberty of proposal a feature, give admin the
> > opportunity to change ethernet name.
> >    my reasones:
> > 1.modern server has several ethernets,but traditional ethernet
> > naming scheme is hard for people to know what its name represent.
> > 2.sometime ethernet name is unpredictable .for example ifc-xxxx is
> > lost, having to change a n ew ethernet card. all those can lead
> > confusion.
> 
> At least for Fedora 19 there is a feature [1] on track 19 which
> addresses this problem (If I understood you correctly).
> This won't give you the ability to rename the NICs, but the NIC names
> won't change.
> This is similar to what biosdevname does, but extends it and isn't
> limited to Dell machines.
AFAIK biosdevname works for non dell machines. It even used to work for some
VMs :-)
> 
> Does this feature help you (when it lands)?
> 
> Greetings
> fabian
> 
> --
> [1]
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/SystemdPredictableNetworkInterfaceNames
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