[systemd-devel] 70-persistent-net.rules

[Kay Sievers]

On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 1:46 PM, Colin Guthrie <gmane at colin.guthr.ie> wrote:

> Should we then consider trying to push a new default name scheme into
> the kernel side such that they come up as "eth-ng0" etc. by default
> allowing any userspace stuff to rename them to "eth1" or whatever
> without so much likelihood of such conflicts.

That would be the only manageable option if such rules would be need
to make working. The kernel could have a parameter to reserve eth0-99,
or so and the first interface it creates would be eth100.

Kay