[CentOS] A question about 7
John R Pierce
pierce at hogranch.com
Wed Jan 15 01:23:08 UTC 2014
On 1/14/2014 5:17 PM, Warren Young wrote:
> I don't know about "less consistent", but I always considered it a
> feature in Linux vs the BSDs or big iron Unix that I could always count
> on the first network interface being "eth0". BSD and big iron Unix
> named the interface after the Ethernet driver, as if that was what was
> important.
conversely, it wasn't always consistent WHICH NIC would be eth0. Had
several x86 servers with dual integral nic's where eth0/eth1 were
swapped relative to what RHEL/CentOS thought they were. while you
COULD force it via mucking about in some kernel file or another, it was
rarely worth the hassle.
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john r pierce 37N 122W
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