[systemd-devel] About stable network interface names

Reindl Harald h.reindl at thelounge.net
Mon May 29 09:49:41 UTC 2017



Am 29.05.2017 um 11:40 schrieb Lennart Poettering:
> Well, different naming strategies have different advantages and
> disadvantages. If you use the MAC address, then replacing hardware
> becomes harder, and you can't cover hardware that doesn't have fixed
> MAC addresses (or VMs)
than KVM or whatever you mean with VMs needs to be fixed

on our VMware cluster all nods are Fedora installed 2008 and all are 
configured with MAC addresses in the ifcfg-ethX files, where moved 
between different vCenter versions and hosts and the MAC is stable


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