On 2010-11-15 14:47, Ben wrote: > On Mon, 15 Nov 2010, Sean Dilda wrote: >> 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 agree. This seems like a solution in search of a problem to me. I prefer my ethernet NICs all to be ethX, especially during install time. Otherwise I'm going to have to play games with PXE configs. This smacks of Solaris. _______________________________________________ Linux-PowerEdge mailing list [email protected] https://lists.us.dell.com/mailman/listinfo/linux-poweredge Please read the FAQ at http://lists.us.dell.com/faq
