[systemd-devel] when/where was support for assigning "ethX" names removed?

[Lennart Poettering]

On Thu, 12.05.16 11:20, Chris Friesen (cbf123 at mail.usask.ca) wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Could someone point me to the commit that removed support for assigning
> "ethX" names based on MAC addresses?
> 
> Alternately, can someone suggest a way to get equivalent behaviour (the
> ability to set "ethX" names based on MAC address) using the current
> infrastructure? (Preferably as of RHEL 7, so systemd 219 plus a bunch of
> patches.)
> 
> The back story is that we've got a lot of scripts/tools that currently
> assume the "ethX" naming, and while we will eventually sort it out we really
> don't want to do it right now.  The previous method of assigning "ethX"
> names was working well for our use-case (though I realize it had issues more
> generally).

https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PredictableNetworkInterfaceNames/

See the end of that page.

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat