On 01/21/2011 11:35 AM, Tim wrote:
> On Fri, 2011-01-21 at 10:44 +0100, Roberto Ragusa wrote:
>> Well, on the other end it is very useful if your NIC is called eth0,
>> because when it is not working well you can remove it from the slot,
>> plug in a new one and restart the system with no configura
On Fri, Jan 21, 2011 at 10:44:49AM +0100, Roberto Ragusa wrote:
> If there is only one NIC, I want it to be eth0.
By default, it will be called em1 or pci#. There is no
way to know "there is only one NIC" at any point in time, as each
device is discovered in parallel, and devices may be hot-added
On Fri, 2011-01-21 at 10:44 +0100, Roberto Ragusa wrote:
> Well, on the other end it is very useful if your NIC is called eth0,
> because when it is not working well you can remove it from the slot,
> plug in a new one and restart the system with no configuration change.
Not quite. There's a few
On 01/21/2011 11:09 AM, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> On 01/21/2011 03:14 PM, Roberto Ragusa wrote:
>>
>> Both approaches are needed, case by case.
>>
>> If there is only one NIC, I want it to be eth0.
>> But I also like that some external disks appear with their own
>> device name and mountpoint (e.g. /
On 01/21/2011 03:14 PM, Roberto Ragusa wrote:
>
> Both approaches are needed, case by case.
>
> If there is only one NIC, I want it to be eth0.
> But I also like that some external disks appear with their own
> device name and mountpoint (e.g. /dev/backupdisk0)
The way it is implemented, you are f
On 01/21/2011 02:24 AM, Tim wrote:
> Interesting how someone, or some people, have seen the sense in making
> network device names more obvious as to what they refer to, rather than
> everything being generic eth0, etc.
Well, on the other end it is very useful if your NIC is called eth0,
because
On Thu, 2011-01-20 at 19:47 +, Adam Williamson wrote:
> Next week sees the first Fedora 15 Test Day[1], on network device
> naming changes upcoming in Fedora 15. On compatible systems, Fedora 15
> will use biosdevname[2] to name the network interfaces; this provides
> a fully deterministic nami
