[systemd-devel] RFC: Predictable Network Interface Names

[Colin Guthrie]

'Twas brillig, and Ian Pilcher at 22/05/13 06:31 did gyre and gimble:
> On 01/08/2013 12:27 PM, Lennart Poettering wrote:
>> On Tue, 08.01.13 12:19, Ian Pilcher (arequipeno at gmail.com) wrote:
>>> Will there still be a way to turn this off from the kernel command line?
>>> (I don't see anything on the wiki page.)
>>
>> biosdevname had this, and we have been thinking of adding this for this
>> too, but so far it doesn't exist. I have now added this to the TODO list
>> so that we don't forget.
>>
> 
> Did this ever get implemented?  Fedora 19 has predictable interface
> names turned on, and I'm really not looking forward to having to
> clean up the anaconda-created ifcfg- file(s) every time I do a new
> install from now on.
> 
> I've Googled, but come up empty on any command-line options that affect
> this feature.

Looking at the rules in git:
http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/tree/rules/80-net-name-slot.rules
yes:

net.ifnames=0

Col

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