Hi. On Wed, 1 Dec 2010 01:33:33 +0000 (UTC), Ben Boeckel wrote:
> Why? FreeBSD (and other BSDs, I'm sure) have been naming network > interfaces based on the manufacturer, at least, for a while now (I > personally started with 7.x and am unsure of when that was new). I was > always curious why eth* was used on Linux actually. And I always thought that this was a pretty weird way to do things, after all, why does the userspace care who made which network card? I think I can live with the biosdevname stuff, though, after all it distinguishes by physical position (which as meaning) instead of vendor (which does not). -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
