Proposed F19 Feature: systemd/udev Predictable Network Interface Names

[Steve Clark]

On 01/29/2013 01:13 PM, Andrew McNabb wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 06:11:19PM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
>> Walk /sys/class/net, filter on type, filter out bridges, filter out
>> wireless if you want to. sysfs should have all the information you need
>> without name-based heuristics.
> You have added confirmation that any attempt to figure out the name of
> the interface is an ugly brittle mess. ;)
>
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> Andrew McNabb
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I agree. I was so happy when we moved from FreeBSD with its em's, vr's, rl's, re's, bge's, fxp's, ed's, etc
to Linux with just eth!

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