[CentOS] biosdevname

Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com
Thu Mar 20 16:25:27 UTC 2014


On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 11:14 AM,  <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote:
> >
>> Anybody else run into problems with biosdevname .0.5..0-2 changing names
>> from p2p1 to em1 when upgrading from biosdevname 0.4.1-3?
>
> Is this in 6.5?
>>
>> Darn!
>> I thought biosdevname was to keep the names the same!!
>
> Maybe enough folks were annoyed with the old Sun-ism, and found eth0 or
> em1 easier to remember, esp. when the network or NIC was down....

eth0 is easy to remember, but in the old scheme the same nic might be
eth0 on one box and eth7 on another so remembering it doesn't help
you.

This sounds like a bug to me.

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  Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell at gmail



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