[ Thanks to Joe ‘Zonker’
Brockmeier for this link. ]
“The Fedora Project is getting ready to break a lot of
networking scripts that depend on the ethX naming convention
— by being the first major distro to ship Consistent Network
Device Naming.“Matt Domsch, Fedora contributor and technology strategy in
Dell’s office of the CTO, put out a call for testing the new naming
scheme this Thursday with a description of the new system. Systems
that have a single network device have no problems — one
Ethernet port means you have one device name (eth0). But two or
more network devices, and the naming is not assured on
startup.”
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