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

[Antoni Segura Puimedon]

If I understand correctly, it would be about the ability to use the
webadmin set names for the vnics, i.e., to write udev rules.

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Mark Wu" <wudxw at linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> To: "bigclouds" <bigclouds at 163.com>
> Cc: arch at ovirt.org
> Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2013 1:52:42 AM
> Subject: Re: proposal:supply a way to allow to change ethernet name.
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> On 03/26/2013 08:13 PM, bigclouds wrote:
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> 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.
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> Are you talking about the same problem resolved by biosdevname
> developed by Dell?
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> 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
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> Mark
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> thanks
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