On Apr 10, 2006, at 2:23 PM, Darren Pilgrim wrote:
I think at this point it's been pretty well established that:
- Device naming and unit numbering is not stable enough to avoid
breakage across hardware changes.
- There is a need for generic and/or descriptive interface naming
independent of driver- and probe-order-based naming.
- There are static bits of information available about each device
in the system that can be used to locate a specific device that
would be sufficient to allow assignment of a network configuration
to a physical device, not it's attached name.
If I were to write an rc.d script to use descriptive network
interface names and wire configs to static hardware identification,
would there be support for such a feature?
Being mostly a lurker on this list I don't know that my vote would
count for much, but yes I'd support such a feature. Thank you also
for outlining the issues for this thread in a simple manner.
--
Joseph Scott
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