RE: nic enumeration

Loke, Chetan
2010-07-09T16:27:58Z

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Florian Weimer [mailto:fweimer@bfk.de]
> Sent: July 09, 2010 3:18 AM
> To: Loke, Chetan
> Cc: Matt Domsch; Michael Di Domenico; linux-net@vger.kernel.org;
linux-
> kernel@vger.kernel.org
> Subject: Re: nic enumeration
>
> * Chetan Loke:
>
> >> And on a system where you can use udev rules, the
> >> 70-persistent-net.rules file can be used to make them constant, by
> >> using the MAC address to force the names to be what you want.
> >>
> >
> > Ok, but can we achieve the renaming w/o a reboot?
>
> "udev-trigger" or "udevadm trigger" works for renaming network
> interfaces. The kernel has some restrictions on renaming interfaces
> which are in use, so this might not work in your case.
>
> --

Ok, no renaming, I would like a reference. And symlink just doesn't work
w/ the udevadm trigger business. We've tried that already.

What needs to be changed in udev etc to create a soft link? Any place
where I should start digging and gotchas to lookout for?

> Florian Weimer <fweimer@bfk.de>

Chetan Loke