[systemd-devel] Udev won't rename interfaces that are already UP

[Reindl Harald]

Am 18.02.2015 um 21:29 schrieb Giancarlo Razzolini:
> On 18-02-2015 18:19, Reindl Harald wrote:
>> and hopefully that keeps this way
>>
>> * configurations rely on eth0, eth1... exists
>
> Didn't you mean en, wl, etc?

no, i mean what i say

>> * they are sane and fine
>> * firewall rules may depend on them
> It is my perception that if you are using predictable network interface
> naming, which is the current default, you can safely make your network
> configuration use the changed interfaces names to be sure they'll get
> the desired interface. This applies to network configuration, firewall
> rules, whatever

predictable? go away!

on any machine i know running network.service (the old style)
ethX is predictable and the new "predictable" changed multiple times and 
frankly there are configurations re-used on a dozens of machines where i 
know in case of *all of them* that eth1 is *always* the WAN interface

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