On Friday 07 Jun 2013 09:06:47 Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 07/06/2013 06:12, Chris Stankevitz wrote:
> > An ethernet device is sometimes represented by the string "eth0". > > Regarding this string "eth0": > > > > 1. What does this string represent? Is it a file on a filesystem? > > (no!) Is it okay for me to call it an "ethernet *device*" [snip...] > For more info, research this list going back about 4 months. The whole > topic was discussed at length. Search for "udev persistent names". A > word of warning - it wasn't pretty at the time and nothing changed just > becuase those mails are now archived :-) Let's hope that the mere mention of that thread does not kick off another rant-storm about udev, systemd, banking bailouts, global warming, ... LOL! More detail on the <aheam!> predictable interface naming scheme can be found here: http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PredictableNetworkInterfaceNames/ and some suggestions for upgrading to the latest stable version of udev in Gentoo were published here: http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Udev/upgrade HTH. -- Regards, Mick
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