On 15/11/10 20:11, Jefferson Ogata wrote: > 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.
I also agree that this seems silly. Surely the problem here is unpredictable ordering of NICs, not the actual *name* of the NIC? Also, I would imagine that those "pesky LAN-on-Motherboard NICs" are actually the ones used by 95% of Dell customers, so changing their name to something other than the long-established linux standard is just opening up a whole world of unnecessary pain, IMHO. R -- "Feed that ego and you starve the soul" - Colonel J.D. Wilkes http://www.theshackshakers.com/ _______________________________________________ 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
