RE: Issue with static ip in NM

[Dan Williams <dcbw redhat com>]

On Sun, 2009-04-26 at 10:58 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Thu, 2009-04-23 at 10:08 -0400, Dan Williams wrote:
> > Right, which is why NM doesn't use device names, since those change
> > with plug/unplug too.  
> 
> We have scripts in udev to avoid that, and give persistent naming of
> devices. Those scripts are based on _more_ than just the MAC address,
> which isn't sufficient on its own. And when new strange hardware
> configurations come up, people add support for that to the standard udev
> scripts.
> 
> Surely people should be augmenting those existing scripts if they have
> to deal with any other devices, and NetworkManager should be able to
> make use of the persistent device names provided by udev?
> 
> Is NetworkManager really just using the MAC address rather than relying
> on what udev provides?

NM currently relies on the HAL UDI to uniquely identify a device, not
the device name.  The udev persistent device names would work better,
but TBH we've only had those for what, 6 - 8 months?  I'm pretty sure
that ex udev-124 doesn't have everything we need, yet that's what Fedora
ships in F-9.

Dan