Proposed F19 Feature: systemd/udev Predictable Network Interface Names

Bill Nottingham notting at redhat.com
Tue Jan 29 18:58:30 UTC 2013


Tomasz Torcz (tomek at pipebreaker.pl) said: 
> > It might be worth considering that we keep the one special case and
> > change the 'eno' prefix in udev to 'em'... this will help some.
> 
>   This could be dangerous.  If I understand right, there is not guarantee
> "em1" would become "eno1" in 100% of cases.  Iptables saved config would
> still need to be checked and verified.

It won't, but having it be the same in the case where it *does* have
the same idea as biosdevname of 'first embedded interface', it could be
useful to have the same name.

Bill


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