On 01/14/14 20:17, 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 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.) What do you mean, "slot"? All of my servers, and our systems at home, the NIC's on the m/b. What "slot" is that? Is it labeled *anywhere*? No, of course not. mark