Re: Refering to devices via MAC address and not the Linux device name.

[Jeremy Katz <katzj redhat com>]

On Wed, 2006-11-08 at 15:28 +1100, Nima Talebi wrote:
> I needed to make this change, and perhapse other will too at some stage...
> I'd like to refer to a device via its MAC address, and not the device name
> (eg eth0, eth1) that the OS gives it. This is specially useful where adding
> a new network card pre-build results in the would-be eth0 and eth1 to become
> eth2 and eth3, and the added in card to take over eth0 and eth1.

For kickstart?  If so, it's probably cleaner to add network --macaddr
support.

Jeremy