On Wed, Jan 16, 2013 at 10:19 AM, Tobias Klausmann <klaus...@gentoo.org> wrote: > Hi! > > On Tue, 15 Jan 2013, Greg KH wrote: >> So anyone who relies on network names right now to be deterministic, and >> you have more than one network device in your system, should seriously >> reconsider how they are naming their devices, as it will not work if you >> only rely on the kernel. >> >> You might have gotten "lucky" for the past 5 years, but you never know >> what could happen if you reboot today. Seriously, I've seen it happen >> all the time. > > It has been rather nifty that if I walk up to a random machine > with exactly one NIC (that I've been asked to examine/fix), I > _know_ that there will be eth0 and only that. > > OTOH, maybe it's a good idea to make admins do "ip link sh" and > "ip addr sh" every time they examine a new computer -- it goes a > long way to root out wrong assumptions in that field. > > Regards, > Tobias > > PS: Do not use ifconfig. Ever. Except if there's no iproute. And > then you should only use ifconfig to enable downloading of > iproute :) >
I would actually like to see iproute2 added to the system set.
