On Thu 24 Aug 2017 at 11:56:55 (-0400), The Wanderer wrote: > At my workplace, we have over 4,000 computers, which run Windows most of > the time but are occasionally booted to a bare-bones live-CD type of > Linux environment (and not a particularly customizable one) for > diagnostic and/or maintenance work. > > We've had enough trouble with the fact that some of them come up with > the interface name /dev/em1 (which I think is supplied directly by the > kernel) rather than /dev/eth0; having the full multiplicity of names > available under the "predictable network interface names" scheme to sort > through, rather than at least being limited to only two, would be enough > more of a pain that I don't want to consider it.
For you, they wrote the last screenful of https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PredictableNetworkInterfaceNames/ Cheers, David.
