On 23 Mar 2002, Gordon Messmer wrote:
> Unless I'm missing something (could be... anyone get this better than I
> do?) I still think that configuring the logical link names is a bad idea
> and should be discarded.
There does need to be some sort of disconnect between the interface name
and the device name. I think there's no way to get control of the map
between modules and interfaces otherwise.
> > It seems that the interface names ethx are overloaded. It also seems that
> > the mechanism that is supposed to map interface names to fixed hardware
> > addresses is broken as a result. I'm not sure if the problem is
> > initscripts or something more fundamental, though.
>
> The problem can only really be fixed in the initscripts. This wouldn't
> be a concern if logical device names were always the same, but that's
> only true until it's not.
Here's another relevant-looking one:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=56395
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Matthew Saltzman
Clemson University Math Sciences
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