Consistent device naming

[Bruno Wolff III]

On Wed, May 14, 2014 at 15:35:37 -0700,
  CLOSE Dave <Dave.Close at us.thalesgroup.com> wrote:
>Bruno Wolff III wrote:
>
>>>> To exchange names, you need to use a temporary name and do three
>>>> renames. Pretty much like swapping to values using a temporary
>>>> variable.
>>>
>>> I can't find a way to do that with udev. Please enlighten me.
>>
>> I use "ip link set" to do that. I am not sure how you would do it
>> with udev.
>
>Thanks for the reference. But that can't be used after the interface is
>up, and my interfaces come up during boot. I think it must be udev or
>nothing, and nothing seems to win based on the link I posted previously.
>I still think the new naming system is broken /by design/.

I forgot to add that since it's been a while since I actually did it. You 
do have to set the link down before doing the rename. But you can use 
ip link to do that as well.