On Monday, January 10, 2005 02:53 pm, Jason Joines wrote: <snip>
I emailed the author of /usr/share/doc/packages/sysconfig/README and here's what he said. Apparently the best you can do is have static names that don't start with eth
Christian Zoz wrote:
On Tue, Jan 04, Jason Joines wrote:
Christian,
Lines 107 and 108 of /usr/share/doc/packages/sysconfig/README on my SuSE 9.2 Pro box read, "always be used for the device with MAC address 00:e0:98:a0:83:c2. And inside this configuration name you may specify a persistent interface name."
What is the syntax for specifiying a "persistent interface name"? I've been unable to find it in man pages, README's, etc. There's a
PERSISTENT_NAME=
Don't use eth* or other names used by the kernel.
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