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. -- john r pierce 37N 122W somewhere on the middle of the left coast