Hello systemd maintainers, We [1] are trying to find good words to put in the release notes about the new network interfaces naming scheme. See the proposed text below, with 3 associated questions:
Dixit Vincent McIntyre, le 22/03/2017 : >+<!-- new in Stretch--> >+<varlistentry> >+<term>New method for naming network interfaces</term> >+<listitem> >+<para> >+The installer and newly installed systems will use a different >+naming scheme for network interfaces instead of eth0, eth1 etc. >+The old naming method suffered from enumeration race conditions >+that made it possible for interface names to change unexpectedly >+and is incompatible with mounting the root filesystem read-only. >+The new enumeration method relies on more sources of information, >+to produce a more repeatable outcome. It uses the firmware/BIOS >+provided index numbers and then tries PCI card slot numbers, >+producing names line ens0 or enp1s1 (ethernet) or wlp3s0 (wlan). >+USB devices, which can be added to the system at any time, >+will have names based upon their ethernet MAC addresses. >+</para> >+<para> >+This change does not apply to upgrades of jessie systems, >+the naming will continue to be enforced by >+/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules. >+For more information, see /usr/share/doc/udev/README.Debian.gz >+</para> >+</listitem> >+</varlistentry> > > >My suggested text above is far from the final word here >and I have questions: > * Is it even accurate? > * How are the firmware/BIOS and PCI slot methods that were discussed > related to the NamePolicy methods in the udev file: > NamePolicy=kernel database onboard mac > * Is biosdevname still out of the picture? Thanks for your answer. Baptiste [1]https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/20170319173153.1eda2037.bapti...@mailoo.org
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