On Wed, 23.01.13 16:07, John Reiser (jrei...@bitwagon.com) wrote: > On 01/23/2013 02:49 PM, Kay Sievers wrote: > > > Just looking at 'lspci' will in most > > cases tell you what the name of the network interface will be. > > This is not true for my machines, which I built using main boards > from ASUS, MSI, etc. The port numbers listed by 'lspci' (thus part of > the default udev name) do NOT correspond to slot numbers in any simple way. > Therefore the udev name requires translation in order to find > the right cable. This is not good. > > biosdevname has the advantage that I can determine the mapping > between cable and interface name by looking at the back of the > machine (where the cables plug in) and counting slots first, > then jacks per slot. biosdevname has handled the mapping between > physical slot and logical PCI port.
I the BIOS provides information about how things are exposed on the backside of the machine, then the new udev native stuff will use that. See the first two naming schemes in the list on: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PredictableNetworkInterfaceNames Lennart -- Lennart Poettering - Red Hat, Inc. -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
