On Mon, 15 Nov 2010, Sean Dilda wrote:
> On 11/14/10 12:40 PM, Matt Domsch wrote:
>> On Sun, Nov 14, 2010 at 03:54:27PM +0000, Stroller wrote:
>>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> Fair enough - but if this is just name bikeshedding, then you are
>> welcome to write udev rules to name them however you like. The
>> process of finding and naming them remains the same.
>
> A large number of people in the industry see 'LOM' and think 'Lights Out
> Management'. As such, I think calling them lomX is very misleading. When I
> first saw this thread, I thought you were talking about naming DRAC
> ethernet interfaces due to that acronym collision.
Everyone I know who I mentioned this to instantly thought I was talking
about LOMs as well. I had to explain the term LAN-On-Motherboard to them
and their response was a uniform "But that's a NIC, which is an ethernet
device, why not stick with ethX?"
> I can't remember the last box I setup with non-onboard NICs. As such, I
> think naming the on-board NICs differently from PCI NICs is just going to
> lead to needless confusion.
I'd tend to agree, I'm afraid.
Ben
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