Description of problem: It seems as F19 induced restriction in creating MAC (HW ether addr) based netvork interfaces for kernel native names ethN - it is relatively simple to create predictable MAC-based netvork interface with some other names (e.g. netX), but creating predictable MAC-based ethX netvork interface names isn't possible - at least with new systemd/udev interface. 'net.ifnames=0'/'NULL /etc/udev/rules.d/80-net-name-slot.rules' is solution for machine with only one interface, thus unacceptable. This should be _bug_, as these names are here ~20 years (whole time the Linux is here), and there are lot of scripts and utilities which expect this naming. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): systemd-204-8.fc19.i686.rpm systemd-204-9.fc19.i686.rpm Additional info: Although is possible solve this problem beside of systemd/udev system initialization phase with some user scripting, this should be systemd task.
Are you saying that it's not possible to rename interfaces *into* the ethX namespace? (E.g. have eth0 renamed to eth1, and eth1 to eth...). That's not supported inded, because it was racy. Even if it worked for a long time, computers are faster now, and the bootup sequence less predictable, and this just isn't supported anymore. For a longer explanation see "Why?" section in http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PredictableNetworkInterfaceNames/ or https://bugs.freedesktop.org/show_bug.cgi?id=56929#c3.