Re: nic enumeration

[Florian Weimer]

* Chetan Loke:

>> And on a system where you can use udev rules, the
>> 70-persistent-net.rules file can be used to make them constant, by
>> using the MAC address to force the names to be what you want.
>> 
>
> Ok, but can we achieve the renaming w/o a reboot? 

"udev-trigger" or "udevadm trigger" works for renaming network
interfaces.  The kernel has some restrictions on renaming interfaces
which are in use, so this might not work in your case.

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