On Wednesday 28 March 2007 22:23, "Marco d'Itri" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Maybe we could have a special-case for MAC addresses in that range and > > have udev not rename them unless satisfying some other requirement forced > > it. > > It's even easier, just add this rule: > > DRIVERS=="vif", GOTO="persistent_net_generator_end" > > It's probably safe enough to be the default, but I am not sure if the > release manager would appreciate me adding it so close to the release.
The current functionality in regard to Xen is seriously broken. A reasonable person will expect that when a Xen virtual machine is configured with a single Ethernet interface then it can be restarted at any time and get the same name - eth0. The current functionality for Xen breaks user expectations and does not provide any benefit that I can imagine. For the rare case of a Xen instance with multiple Ethernet devices it would be easy to modify the config file in question - which is actually an easier task than determining how to correctly manage MAC addresses. I believe that this fix is worthy of inclusion at this time. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://etbe.blogspot.com/ My Blog http://www.coker.com.au/sponsorship.html Sponsoring Free Software development -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
