[Ovirt-devel] [PATCH node] persist current ethN-MAC mapping

[Jeremy Katz]

On Saturday, February 07 2009, Alan Pevec said:
> ok, this doesn't work on Fedora, if NIC order changed, you get "Device
> eth0 has different MAC address than expected, ignoring."  because
> /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules is not saved. Unfortunately
> bindmounting in rc.sysinit comes too late, drivers are already loaded
> at that time. We would need to remove and insert NIC driver kmods
> after bindmounting... Any better ideas?
> Older initscripts (EL-5 vintage) would rename the ethN interfaces to
> match the MAC in ifcfg-eth*

Removing and inserting is historically fragile and prone to problems --
kernel developers threaten to remove the ability to use rmmod every so
often :)

Bill -- any ideas on a good way to handle this?  Nothing is immediately
coming to mind for me, but it might just be that ti's too early on
Monday morning

Jeremy