No, BSD doesn't use e* for all ethernet devices. In FreeBSD (for example) the device is named after the device-driver, and thus an ethernet device can be called anything from (just a few examples):
aeN bceN (Broadcom devices) cxgbN edN mskN reN xlN For reference: http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.1R/hardware.html#ETHERNET My 2 cents: I'm either for or against using other names than ethN, but to divagate from a defacto standard (has it ever been formalized that alle ethernet devices must be called ethN on all Linux-flavors?) can lead to complications how ever good your intensions are.. Regards, Jens Dueholm Christensen Survey IT -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Stroller Sent: 16. november 2010 05:30 To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Consistent Network Device Naming for LOMs coming... On 15/11/2010, at 3:17pm, Tino Schwarze wrote: >> Because of the overloading of the acronym LOM I propose >> you change it to "NIC On Motherboard" or nomX (-: >> >> Another suggestion from an IT colleague of mine was "Motherboard Ethernet" >> or methX. It's closer to ethX and therefore easier to remember/associate. > > Maybe ethmX would be even better since regular expressions like "eth.*" > will still match. A lot of tools would have to be changed... On 15/11/2010, at 6:18pm, Matt Domsch wrote: > ... > I just patched biosdevname to use 'enX'. For now at least... I think you underestimated how ugly the name "lom0" is. If the name of the interface must be changed then can I add eom0, eom1, to the list of suggestions, please? Interface names should be short and should "sound interfacy". "e" is a good letter to begin the name with - Linux chooses eth0, BSD chooses em0, Irix chooses ec0, Solaris, well... let's not talk about Solaris. if0 and if1 would make sense, too, but I wouldn't proposing them on this occasion, as it wouldn't really make it obvious why they'd be chosen instead of eth0. Interface names en0, en1 &c are used on Macs. I think it's a pretty good name, but let the Macs keep it. eom1, eom2 contain 3 letters and begins with the letter "e", just like the current ethX naming. eom stands for ethernet-on-motherboard, so is at least somewhat intuitive. Sorry to be critical of these other suggestions, but nomX just makes me think of the nomnomnom lolcat, methX of junkies' booking photos. Actually, nomnomnom makes for funnies, but not beginning with "e" or "i" breaks the "sound interfacy" rule, so is therefore slightly ugly and would confuse people more on first encounter with the new convention. Finally, everyone knows bike sheds should be blue or green. That's the colour they were when I was at school, and I see no need to change now. Stroller. _______________________________________________ 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
