On Wed, Jul 15, 2015 at 02:40:49PM -0400, Steve Litt wrote:
taste. They even have those wonderful "Predictable Network Interface
Names" 
(http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PredictableNetworkInterfaceNames/).
Silly me, I thought eth0 was predictable.

If you only have one NIC, yes it is. If you have more than one (even maybe with different drivers), your eth0 is not predictable anymore. You could say that is the fault of the kernel and the whole event based crap.

Some distribution used udev rules and renamed the interfaces according to the rule file, but this could lead to race conditions (udev tried to rename ethX to ethY while the kernel want to name the next NIC ethY, then you got some nasty ethY_renamed interface).

Shade and sweet water!

        Stephan

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