On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 12:05:44PM -0600, Andrew McNabb wrote: > I suppose I could have written a script that goes through the list of > interfaces, filters out hardcoded names like "lo", "wlan", "tun", and > "tap", and then assumes that whatever is left is the ethernet device. > And then I could have fixed such a script each time it breaks when types > of devices are added and renamed (surely the current discussion is only > the next phase in a long sequence of renames). In the end, though, I > just disabled biosdevname. Having a static "eth0" name is much less > brittle, even on many multi-interface machines.
Walk /sys/class/net, filter on type, filter out bridges, filter out wireless if you want to. sysfs should have all the information you need without name-based heuristics. -- Matthew Garrett | mj...@srcf.ucam.org -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
