On Thu, Aug 02, 2007 at 01:47:23PM +0200, Jan Engelhardt wrote: > It does not rename ethX to the "next free" one, but to a _persistent_ one. > If it were a "next free" thing, then removing a card would shuffle all > your eth around again (and invalidate your iptables rules at the same > time, to note).
It is questionable what is _persistent_ . MAC-based names are persistent with regard to adding and removing of other cards, 'Plain' names are persistent with regard to replacing that card with different item (of a same kind). I am very happy that (using 'plain' names) i can send technician to replace broken NIC in our routers without need for configuration change. -- Elen sila lumenn' omentielvo Ondrej 'SanTiago' Zajicek (email: [EMAIL PROTECTED], jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) OpenPGP encrypted e-mails preferred (KeyID 0x11DEADC3, wwwkeys.pgp.net) "To err is human -- to blame it on a computer is even more so." - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/