[yocto] Disabling udev NIC renaming

[Chris Tapp]

Hi Khem,

On 16 Jun 2013, at 21:05, Khem Raj wrote:

> On Sun, Jun 16, 2013 at 4:09 AM, Chris Tapp <opensource at keylevel.com> wrote:
>> I use a USB drive to boot systems for testing and to install the image. This works ok for the first, but 'eth0' gets renamed to 'eth1' on the second system (etc).
>> 
>> Is there an option I can set to stop udev creating rules which result in the NIC name changing, or should I just add an empty
>> 
>> /etc/udev/rules.d/75-peristent-net-generator.rules
>> 
>> file to my image?
> 
> thats one way. If you are using systemd then systemd already have the
> feature to use persistent IF names. see
> http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PredictableNetworkInterfaceNames/

Thanks, that's useful into. I've not got systemd yet, but that certainly looks like the way to go.

>> 
>> Chris Tapp
>> 
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Chris Tapp

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