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Re: Re: Switching from eudev to udev, disaster. [ In reply to ]
On 12/1/21 10:02 AM, Grant Edwards wrote:
> IIRC, there are situations where using udev rules to rename them
> "ethN" based on MAC addresses will fail because that can conflict
> with the low-level kernel names. Or something like that.

I don't think I ever ran into a problem re-using the original kernel
eth# names /as/ /long/ /as/ the target name wasn't currently in use.
Sometimes I needed to vacate the target name before I could re-use it.



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Grant. . . .
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