[systemd-devel] Rename NIC by using dynamic MAC

[Aaron_Wright at selinc.com]

> From: Kaesbauer Michael <Michael.Kaesbauer at krones.com>
> Hi,
> 
> 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).
> 
>  ...snip...

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.

KERNELS=="0000:02:00.0", NAME="front0"
KERNELS=="0000:06:03.0", NAME="rear0"
KERNELS=="0000:06:04.0", NAME="rear1"
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