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

[Antoni Segura Puimedon]

Ah! Sorry I misunderstood. Well, as Mark said, the consistency is
guaranteed by biosdevname, by Dell. AFAIK nobody has put any work
on doing udev renaming for hosts. We'd have to see whether the
community gets behind this and then try to come up with an API for
that.

----- Original Message -----
> From: "bigclouds" <bigclouds at 163.com>
> To: "Antoni Segura Puimedon" <asegurap at redhat.com>
> Cc: arch at ovirt.org
> Sent: Wednesday, March 27, 2013 12:02:26 PM
> Subject: Re:Re: proposal:supply a way to allow to change ethernet name.
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> 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
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> 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.
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 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.
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 
> >> 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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