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From: Bill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>
To: linux-hotplug@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: eth3 becoming /sys/class/net/dev22358
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2007 16:58:59 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070131165859.GF26542@nostromo.devel.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <slrnes14nq.q2m.mykleb@99RXZYP.ibm.com>

Jan Frode Myklebust (MYKLEB@no.ibm.com) said: 
> As HWADDR in ifcfg-eth* seems to be more of a safety-net, what's the
> recommended way of getting stable eth* names on RHEL4? Creating udev-rules
> for all servers seems too much... It would be nice if there were a simple
> "save-current eth*-mac mapping" function that would be restored upon boot.

The answer *is* to add HWADDR to the config files.

Bill

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2007-01-31 16:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-01-31 13:00 eth3 becoming /sys/class/net/dev22358 Jan-Frode Myklebust
2007-01-31 15:25 ` Jan-Frode Myklebust
2007-01-31 16:24 ` Bill Nottingham
2007-01-31 16:36 ` Linas Vepstas
2007-01-31 16:37 ` Jan Frode Myklebust
2007-01-31 16:57 ` Jan Frode Myklebust
2007-01-31 16:58 ` Bill Nottingham [this message]

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