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

[Nima Talebi <nima talebi det nsw edu au>]

Yes, specially if you could name a device (via whatever means) by say...


--device=eth0 --macaddr=...

I can understand for most that this is not a very useful feature, but in our
setup, all eth0 are the first onboard and are the public interface, all
eth1s are the second onboard interface and are private. Unfortunately
insering a network card pre-build changes those ones to eth2 and eth3.

Nima 


On 9/11/06 2:55 AM, "Jeremy Katz" <katzj redhat com> wrote:

> 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
> 
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