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

[Mark Wu]

On 03/26/2013 08:13 PM, bigclouds wrote:
> 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.
>
>
Are you talking about the same problem resolved by biosdevname developed 
by Dell?

You could take a look at the following links to confirm it.
http://linux.dell.com/files/whitepapers/consistent_network_device_naming_in_linux.pdf
https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Deployment_Guide/appe-Consistent_Network_Device_Naming.html

Mark

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> thanks
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