El 27/08/17 a les 11:08, Martin Steigerwald ha escrit: > Narcis Garcia - 27.08.17, 09:59: >> El 26/08/17 a les 19:57, Didier Kryn ha escrit: >>> Le 26/08/2017 à 19:02, Alessandro Selli a écrit : >>> With my proposed solution, the admin has the choice to refer to nics >>> >>> by their interface name, as given by the kernel, which is fine when >>> there is only one, or by their MAC address, if there are several. If you >>> use MAC you get the same result as with current Devuan's udev renaming >>> scheme -without the race - and if you use eth0 then you get the same >>> result as if you disabled renaming. And you can mix things if you like >>> in /etc/interfaces, eg use wlan0 for wifi and MAC for the Ethernets; it >>> isn't a decisipon of the distro; it is up to the admin. Just like for >>> partitions. Simplicity and choice, that's Unix, isn't it :-) >> >> This is exactly what the 'mactoname' service allows. > > A maintainer/developer of ifupdown implemented this also there. Its standard > in Debian Sid now, that you can use MAC addresses in /e/n/i to address > interfaces. > > There has been a huge and long thread on debian-devel about naming of network > interfaces that triggered a maintainer of ifupdown to implement this new > feature. > > See manpage interfaces(5) on Debian Sid under PATTERN MATCHING INTERFACES. > > For thread see: > > Debian 9 in a VM with Proxmox 5 system => > Naming of network devices > https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2017/07/threads.html#00115 > > And here is the the mail about the MAC address pattern matching that Guus > Sliepen implemented: > > https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2017/07/msg00265.html > > But as Adam who replied to this mail then is on this list, it may be that he > mentioned all of this already… however how can I know in a thread that goes > about everything and the universe. > > Thanks, >
Thanks for references; then mactoname is really useful for these cases: From Sarge to Stretch/Ascii (not next Debian versions) Hurd FreeBSD + Cases without ifupdown. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
