[CentOS] A question about 7

[Steve Clark]

On 01/14/2014 08:17 PM, Warren Young wrote:
> On 1/14/2014 16:37, Scott Robbins wrote:
>> On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 02:57:20PM -0700, Warren Young wrote:
>>> Everyone, drop a tear for the dead "eth0".  <sniff>  We will miss you, eth0!
>> Haven't played much with it in CentOS.  In Fedora, at present, it is a bit
>> of pain as both biosdevname and systemd have something to do with it,
>> making it less consistent than ever.
> 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.
I agree - it was so much easier when we switched to CentOS from FreeBSD all the
interfaces were ethx instead of vrx, rlx, edx, fxpx, emx, bge, etc - it made it so much easier when the
hardware platform changed to move our software configs.

> I get that network interfaces can move around on you, but I thought that
> was why they started putting the MAC address in the ifcfg-eth? scripts.
>    What problem did that not solve, that we had to switch to this new system?
>
> Now I have to remember which *PCI slot* my Ethernet card is in when I
> run "ifconfig" unless I want to dig through the full listing.
>
> Evil shades of PR#1, begone!
>
> (Apple DOS 3.3 reference, there.)
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