On Sat, Jan 09, 2016 at 09:19:33PM +0100, Anto wrote: > > On 09/01/16 19:44, shraptor wrote: > >On 2016-01-09 19:17, Anto wrote: > > > >>On the topic. It would be quite interesting how vdev will be (or is) > >>managing this network interface naming assignment. Do you have any > >>comment on this, Jude? > > > >vdev uses by default old naming convention but has a file > >called /etc/vdev/ifnames.conf where you can set names arbitrarily. > > > >Example ifnames.conf that is auto-generated at compile time > >(only covered up my mac addresses) > > > ># Format: > ># PERSISTENT_INTERFACE_NAME mac|devpath MATCH_ARGUMENT > ># * PERSISTENT_INTERFACE_NAME is the persistent name of the > >network interface > ># * If the second argument is "mac", then MATCH_ARGUMENT is the > >colon-separated MAC address > ># * If the second argument is "devpath", then MATCH_ARGUMENT is > >the device path to the NIC in sysfs > ># > ># Example: a wireless USB dongle, to be named "wlan-edimax" > ># > ># Using the "mac" match: > ># wlan-edimax mac 80:1F:02:D3:B2:83 > ># > ># Using the "devpath" match: > ># wlan-edimax devpath > >/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1a.0/usb1/1-1/1-1.1/1-1.1:1.0 > > > >eth0 mac XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX > >wlan0 mac XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX > > Thanks shraptor, > > It looks good to me. > > I have been trying to do the same on udev to have persistent > interface name according to the MAC address, e.g. by following the > tips on > http://wiki.networksecuritytoolkit.org/nstwiki/index.php/Network_Setup_Tips, > but no joy so far. Perhaps it always fails because I am using eudev > instead of systemd-udev. So I just use the workaround to have > net.ifnames=0 on my kernel command line until we have vdev package > on Devuan repository.
And when the vdev package lands on the Devuan repository couold we please have a jessie package or backport for it? Even though jessie is supposed to be stable? -- hendrik > > Cheers, > > Anto > _______________________________________________ > Dng mailing list > Dng@lists.dyne.org > https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
