Re: Specifying names for tap interfaces

[Darren Reed <darrenr%netbsd.org@localhost>]

On 24/06/2012 12:21 AM, Jean-Yves Migeon wrote:
> On 23.06.2012 15:51, Darren Reed wrote:
>> Linux's method associates names by driver type (eth0, eth1, etc).
> 
> It's more complicated than that. Nowadays it uses udev to generate
> device names, each distros having their own set of rules. Persistence in
> setups where the MAC address is randomly allocated (very frequent with
> VPS) caused all sort of misconfiguration issues: rebooting the VM moved
> eth0 to eth1/2/3, ... causing havoc in network scripts.

I was unaware that Linux had this bug. I don't believe that
either HP-UX or Solaris 11 do.