On Thu, 2017-07-13 at 09:07 -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Er, I saw this all the time without udev persistent naming. Every > time we rebooted one of our servers, the four onboard NICs (of which > we were only using one -- long story, but basically that's just what > the systems came with out of the box and my employer at the time > wasn't a big enough customer to customize the hardware) would get > randomly different ethN device names assigned to them. That's *why* > udev persistent naming was so important when we were using ifupdown > to manage static network configuration on servers.
Fair enough. So now I have my example. Possibly a compromise would be not to assign persistent names if you have to use the mac address in the name. I think it's only 73-usb-net- by-mac.rules that does it this way.
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