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 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.)