it is not a step back for enterprise servers with 2 or more vendors ethernet cards.
We were doing a udev rule (by pci-busid) so the right cards were in the right places, and had (pci-busid) rules for each model so that the names were always the same. The "new" standard makes what we (and probably others) were doing no longer required since the new naming scheme matches the scheme we were using. The pci-busid scheme also would allow us to swap a bad chassis (mb+cards) with one of the same model and it would just work. Using the mac-address naming made these swaps a big mess (the mac addresses had to be updated), where-as the new naming scheme worked for that seamlessly. The only negative part I have seen is that on one of my desktop systems at home removing/adding a pci card changes the PCI-busid of the built-in network card (guessing badly designed/coded bios). On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 at 3:40 PM Tom Horsley <horsley1...@gmail.com> wrote: > > On Sun, 12 Apr 2020 13:33:50 -0700 > Jack Craig wrote: > > > further reading of some RH portal docs, i decided my notion was an > > unacceptable step backward in techs stream of forward progress. > > I consider the "improvement" a step backwards. Certainly for > a desktop system with one and only one ethernet port. The > immutable name for a single ethernet port should always > be "eth0" :-). > > (Especially since "immutable" names have changed several times > with new kernels, switching to systemd in charge instead of biosdevname > etc). > _______________________________________________ > users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org > To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org > Fedora Code of Conduct: > https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ > List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines > List Archives: > https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@lists.fedoraproject.org To unsubscribe send an email to users-le...@lists.fedoraproject.org Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@lists.fedoraproject.org
