Am 26.02.2013 03:10, schrieb Marko Vojinovic: > The actual difference between the two methods is about system > maintenance --- when your network card burns out (these things happen, > unfortunately), biosdevname allows you to plug a new card into the same > pci slot and just turn the machine back on, with no extra > configuration. If you are configuring udev manually, and tie nic names > to MAC addresses, you are required to reconfigure udev for > the new MAC address of the new card. > > The pain is greater in the latter case, while I see no gain at all, > compared to the way of biosdevname. > > Maybe the OP can enlighten me *why* does he need MAC-oriented naming > scheme so badly? Just curious... :-)
well, do a restore-probe of a virtual machine backup usually it get assigend a new MAC and you do not want get it up ith a IP-collission before you changed ifcfg-ethX
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