Re: [CentOS] A question about 7

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.