interface renaming (was: Re: Moving towards NetworkManager)

[Colin Law]

On 30 July 2016 at 14:11, Josef Wolf <jw at raven.inka.de> wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 30, 2016 at 01:35:47PM +0100, Colin Law wrote:
>> On 30 July 2016 at 11:59, Karl Auer <kauer at biplane.com.au> wrote:
>> > https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PredictableNetworkInterfaceNames/
>> https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PredictableNetworkInterfaceNames/
>
> We've seen this link multiple times in this thread.
>
>> (if it survives being chopped up in the mail system) which,
>> interestingly, seems to contradict some information previously given
>> in this thread.
>
> What does it contradict?

For example "it might very well happen that "eth0" on one boot ends up
being "eth1" on the next".

Colin