On 23.01.2014 07:40, Rejy M Cyriac wrote: > On 01/20/2014 10:28 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: … >> While I am here, I also wanted to know the answer to the question as >> to how the interfaces are decided in latter-day Fedoras: to elucidate, >> it used to be that eth0 and wlan0 and ppp0 were the interfaces. Now it >> seems to depend (and vary from one machine to the other). How do these >> get decided nowadays? Is there a generic way to get to the correct >> interface to use in programming? I am thinking of conky which requires >> the interface (from ifconfig, say) to set up signal strength, etc. >> > That would be biosdevname. It has been around for some time now.
$ rpm -q biosdevname package biosdevname is not installed ;) Predictable Network Interface Names [1] $ man 7 udev $ nmcli device status DEVICE TYPE STATE enp1s9 ethernet connected poma [1] http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PredictableNetworkInterfaceNames/ http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/tree/src/udev/udev-builtin-net_id.c#n20 -- users mailing list users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
