10 Aug
2012
10 Aug
'12
3:43 a.m.
On 10/08/12 09:18, Reindl Harald wrote:
and that is why i use /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules to pin device-name / MAC and no mac-address in ifconfig-scripts since many years
+1
Alternatively, with the biosdevname, you can pin the interface name to the pci(e) slot. That way its a trivial exercise to get 'remote hands' to swap out a dead nic -- no need to fiddle with the mac address.
K
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