From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Scott Farwell" Date: Tue, 12 Jun 2007 19:47:19 +0000 Subject: Fw: Udev naming conventions. Message-Id: <000701c7ad2a$7cd2cd10$32489dce@interact.nonreg> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org I want to control what Ethernet interfaces are named eth0, eth1, eth2, eth3, etc....based on MAC address but I don't want them named anything other than eth0 - ethx so that it remains backwards compatible with software written to check eth0. So I'm not wanting to rename anything, I just want to bind each ethx device name to a specific hardware port based on MAC address. That way if I physically lost eth1 for some reason (burned up chip) I wouldn't end up with my 3rd Ethernet port(eth2) renamed to eth1 on the next bootup. I was told that udev is the way to enable device persistence, but it appears that it requires me to rename my interfaces something other than eth0 - ethx. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ Linux-hotplug-devel mailing list http://linux-hotplug.sourceforge.net Linux-hotplug-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-hotplug-devel