On 01/23/2014 06:21 PM, poma wrote: > 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 >
Interesting. I stand corrected. Thanks poma. :-) Does that mean we cannot disable the feature by a kernel parameter any more ? -- Regards, Rejy M Cyriac (rmc) -- 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
