Re: Fedora 16 killed my eth0 ?

From: Andrew Haley <aph@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2012 09:55:14 +0100

On 04/04/2012 06:47 AM, Zoltan Szecsei wrote:

Well, perhaps someone should also think about impact of name-changing.
Quite frankly, what's in a name, so why change it?

It's because in the old scheme when a machine had several ports the
mapping between the physical hardware and the dev nodes was not fixed:
the kernel would just assign names as it found interfaces. This
caused a fair bit of inconvenience.

From my side, I have a "no longer supported" SW product that
licenses itself against the MAC address of ETH0. Yep, ETH0 and not
any other name.

Put a symlink in?

Andrew.
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