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.