how do I lock physical NIC's to static device names?

[David Vincent]

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Derek Broughton wrote:
> stan wrote:
> 
>> I poked around a bit in /etc/udev and /lib/udev, and frankly I am
>> confused. I want to absolutely lock down a mapping between MAC addresses
>> and device names on UBUNTU 7.10 installations. can some kind soul point me
>> to how to do this?
>>
> 
> Create a file /etc/iftab with the mapping you want - like:
>  eth0 mac 00:00:00:1a:73:5b arp 1
>  eth1 mac 00:1b:24:4b:5c:ff arp 1
> 
> Then run /usr/lib/udev/migrate-iftab.pl (which is a standard part of udev)
> 
> I can't believe somebody went to the trouble of replacing a perfectly simple
> config file with a really hard to maintain udev rule!

/etc/iftab has been replaced by /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules

just edit /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules

- -d


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