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

[bigclouds]

i mean HOST's(not guest) ethernet.
Consistent Network Device Naming  is what i proposal.
if someone is working on implementing  it in ovirt?
 
thanks





At 2013-03-27 15:23:18,"Antoni Segura Puimedon" <asegurap at redhat.com> wrote:
>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?
>> 
>> 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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