We use the old eth naming on el7. Why? We have enough tech to juggle with and
its just one thing less. It also makes our el7 systems look the same as el5 and
el6 ones. When I say el, we also have centos/rhel and oracle Linux in the mix.
Not to mention 2 Ubuntu releases and then lots of different
It isn't just RH - openSUSE Fedora have named networks this way
(deterministic) for several versions. Also, a network without a
gateway is a valid configuration as a level of security so Cobble
should be able to handle such a configuration.
Multi-homed servers using the old ethX syntax are not det