<tt>> From: Kaesbauer Michael <Michael.Kaesbauer@krones.com> > Hi,</tt> <tt>> </tt> <tt>> up to now I found no way to write an udev rule which renames a > specific NIC by using a MAC address that is returned by a bash > script. The reason for getting the MAC address by the bash script is > that the renaming NIC rule should be applied to different CPUs (with > different MACs).</tt> <tt>> </tt> <tt>> ...snip...</tt> <tt>I have a similar problem, wanting to name NICs by location in the box. My udev rules use KERNELS, which seems to be consistent for me, maybe it'll work for you.</tt> KERNELS=="0000:02:00.0", NAME="front0" KERNELS=="0000:06:03.0", NAME="rear0" KERNELS=="0000:06:04.0", NAME="rear1"