Tom H <tomh0...@gmail.com> writes: > On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 9:07 PM, lee <l...@yagibdah.de> wrote: >> Tom H <tomh0...@gmail.com> writes: >>> On Mon, Dec 19, 2016 at 3:07 PM, Daniel Frey <djqf...@gmail.com> wrote: >>>> >>>> It is even more frustrating that these so-called predictable network >>>> names actually can change on a reboot, it's happened to me more than >>>> once when multiple network cards are detected in a different order. >>> >>>>From Kay Sievers in [1]: >>> >>> <BEGIN> >>> Btw, predictable means it will not change between reboots, that names >>> will not depend on enumeration order within the same setup. It does >>> not mean or promise, that added kernel/driver/firmware features will >>> not result in different names. That is expected behavior. >>> </END> >>> >>> [1] >>> https://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/systemd-devel/2015-October/034614.html >> >> So the names will not change when rebooting and are to be expected to >> possibly change at any time. >> >> How is that more reliable? > > It's more reliable than using the kernel's names because the names > won't change UNLESS there's kernel/driver/firmware change for that > NIC. I doubt that these changes occur that often. Perhaps someone else > knows.
What happens more often: That a network card is replaced with a different one or that the software changes?
