[CentOS] wifi on servers and fedora [was Re: 7.2 kernel panic on boot]

[Jonathan Billings]

On Dec 10, 2015, at 6:05 PM, Leroy Tennison <leroy at datavoiceint.com> wrote:
> There is a freedesktop.org web page about why they did this - it has to do with mobile devices and plug-and-play networking.  Take that page's statement about setting net.ifnames=0 cautiously, I found it was the exact opposite. 

To be honest, I found that this change better suited servers, which often have multiple interfaces on multiple vendor’s cards, rather than mobile devices, which tend to only have one ethernet device, if any.  Being able to predictably define which interface would be named is much more important when you’ve got 4 network interfaces, rather than hoping that eth0 is the one you booted from.



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Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>