FWIW Debian has ignored VMware virtual interfaces by mac:
If you grab http://ftp.us.debian.org/debian/pool/main/u/udev/udev_157-1_i386.deb and look at lib/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net-generator.rules it has:
# ignore interfaces with locally administered or null MAC addresses # and VMWare virtual interfaces ENV{MATCHADDR}=="?[2367abef]:*", ENV{MATCHADDR}="" ENV{MATCHADDR}=="00:00:00:00:00:00", ENV{MATCHADDR}="" ENV{MATCHADDR}=="00:0c:29:*|00:50:56:*", ENV{MATCHADDR}=""
FWIW Debian has ignored VMware virtual interfaces by mac:
If you grab http:// ftp.us. debian. org/debian/ pool/main/ u/udev/ udev_157- 1_i386. deb and look at lib/udev/ rules.d/ 70-persistent- net-generator. rules it has:
# ignore interfaces with locally administered or null MAC addresses =="?[2367abef] :*", ENV{MATCHADDR}="" =="00:00: 00:00:00: 00", ENV{MATCHADDR}="" =="00:0c: 29:*|00: 50:56:* ", ENV{MATCHADDR}=""
# and VMWare virtual interfaces
ENV{MATCHADDR}
ENV{MATCHADDR}
ENV{MATCHADDR}