On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 3:14 PM, Reindl Harald <h.reindl at thelounge.net> wrote: > >>> you do not understand what i have said >>> >>> the race between kernel enumeration and udev is the reason >>> why it is unpredictable, do not use the kernel names on machines >>> with more than one interfaces and NOTHING will fuckup your >>> "lan0", "lan1".... >> >> I don't understand how you create that udev entry before you need it > > easy if you know the MAC address Do you mean you make the change in a virtual system image before copying/changing the virtual MACs? Or in a script that runs during boot up before the network comes up? >> Or why one udev-assigned name is different from any other name once >> it is in place in that file > > you know what race-condition means? > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=782145 I suppose that's possible, but doesn't have much to do with the issue of making the ifcfg-* files match the MAC address. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com