On 10 Dec 2015 23:25, "Leroy Tennison" <leroy at datavoiceint.com> wrote: > > The device I encountered it on had 10 NICS, at installation 6 of them got the new naming convention and four of them got the eth convention. I guess my question is "what's wrong with using the MAC address?" Yes, I know some things don't have MAC addresses, let the exceptional situation be the exception. > Because when that PCI express card with the 4-8 ports on it fails and it's replaced under warranty having the server come back up right away with the correct configuration since the logical port names haven't changed despite the change of MAC is useful...