Re: Question to new network device names
On Thu 24 Aug 2017 at 11:56:55 (-0400), The Wanderer wrote:
> At my workplace, we have over 4,000 computers, which run Windows most of
> the time but are occasionally booted to a bare-bones live-CD type of
> Linux environment (and not a particularly customizable one) for
> diagnostic and/or maintenance work.
>
> We've had enough trouble with the fact that some of them come up with
> the interface name /dev/em1 (which I think is supplied directly by the
> kernel) rather than /dev/eth0; having the full multiplicity of names
> available under the "predictable network interface names" scheme to sort
> through, rather than at least being limited to only two, would be enough
> more of a pain that I don't want to consider it.
For you, they wrote the last screenful of
https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PredictableNetworkInterfaceNames/
Cheers,
David.
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