On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 11:20 PM, Digimer <lists at alteeve.ca> wrote: > To answer this question using my use-case; > > I build HA clusters, and I want to make sure that physical port X on all > nodes have the same device name. Biosdevname tries to address this, but > doesn't work all the time. > > Further, in my case, I've got a minimum of six interfaces in each node, > paired into three bonded groups. Having the device name reflect the purpose > in the node is very helpful 12~24 months down the road when I need to fix a > network problem. > > There *are* cogent arguments for renaming interfaces. > > cheers No argument here. I just though that it is much easier to simply pass the following options to grub --> "net.ifnames=0 biosdevname=0" Then you manually edit the interface(s) name.