On 2021-11-30, Grant Taylor <[email protected]> wrote:
> Besides, it's a LOT easier to /just/ `tcpdump -nni eth0` when logging > into a machine than it is to have to figure out the interface name first. Yep. I always add udev rules to rename the boards net0, net1, etc. based don the MAC addresses. > That being said, I was okay with what CentOS 6.x did, where the new name > was matched against the MAC address. I had eth0 based on MAC for > outside and eth1 based on MAC for inside on a number of systems. IIRC, there are situations where using udev rules to rename them "ethN" based on MAC addresses will fail because that can conflict with the low-level kernel names. Or something like that. -- Grant (the other one)
