On Fri, 26 Sep 2014 05:27:15 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: > > I buy machines with one ethernet interface. What I find > > particularly annoying is this doublespeak about calling it > > "predictable". Before the change, it was predicatbly "eth0". Now, > > it's different on every different model.
> It's not doublespeak, the interfaces are named exactly according to > where they are on the PCI bus. If you had two interfaces, they show up > to the kernel in random order by time and sometimes eth0/eth1 are nto > the same they were before the reboot. That may be true for PCI devices but not for USB ones. If you unplug a USB device and plug it back into the same port, it will get a different device number. The naming is more predictable, but it's not there yet. -- Neil Bothwick The gene pool could use a little chlorine.
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