On 14/11/2010, at 4:55am, Matt Domsch wrote:
> ...
> https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/ConsistentNetworkDeviceNaming
> 
> ...
> Like? Dislike?  I'd love to hear your comments.

I detest the name "lom", and my initial reaction was in response to that.

But reading the wiki page, I guess it makes sense. My 2650s (and I think my 
2850) have two on-board NICs and they always come up as eth0 and eth1 in the 
same order. They appear to come up in the same order when no udev rules exist - 
or at least they always come up in the same order when booted from a LiveCD. 
The wiki page implies this is *not* the case with these newer generation of 
servers, so I can see that something needed to be done, but the name "lom" 
seems atrocious - my initial reaction was to wonder if my video card, USB and 
firewire ports should be named something different if they're built into the 
mainboard.

I'm not really qualified to comment, but my instinct is to prefer a more 
general solution - that all ports should be named ethX, but (in the absence of 
udev rules) always to be numbered in MAC address order, for instance.

Stroller.


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