My 2 cents.. I like and welcome the idea of using lomX. Ben Gordy
-----Original Message----- From: linux-poweredge-bounces-Lists On Behalf Of "Andreas Bergstrøm" Sent: Tuesday, November 16, 2010 8:43 AM To: linux-poweredge-Lists Subject: Re: Consistent Network Device Naming for LOMs coming... Robin Bowes skrev: > 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. Personally, I welcome this change. Predictable ordering of NICs will be very welcome. And since I understand this was rejected for kernel space, thus making it impossible to do in ethX name space, another name seems necessary. Personally I found ethomX most logical of the names suggested thus far. (EnX makes me think OS X machine). However, couldn't the entire naming issue be alleviated by adding symlinks from ethX to ethomX/enX/lomX to ensure backwards compatibility while making things easier to setup on multi-NIC machines? Regards, -- Andreas Bergstrøm Østfold University College Dept. of Informatics http://media.hiof.no _______________________________________________ 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 _______________________________________________ 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
