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.
