Hello listmates,<div><br></div><div>I recently installed Fedora 16 as a guest VM under VirtualBox and instead of the usual eth0/eth1 etc. names I got the following:</div><div><br></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">[root@ipa-test0 ~]# ifconfig<br>
lo Link encap:Local Loopback <br> inet addr:127.0.0.1 Mask:255.0.0.0<br> inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host<br> UP LOOPBACK RUNNING MTU:16436 Metric:1<br> RX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0<br>
TX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0<br> collisions:0 txqueuelen:0 <br> RX bytes:812 (812.0 b) TX bytes:812 (812.0 b)<br><br>p2p1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 08:00:27:1C:C1:37 <br>
inet addr:10.0.2.15 Bcast:10.0.2.255 Mask:255.255.255.0<br> inet6 addr: fe80::a00:27ff:fe1c:c137/64 Scope:Link<br> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1<br> RX packets:1653 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0<br>
TX packets:890 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0<br> collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 <br> RX bytes:1488287 (1.4 MiB) TX bytes:58177 (56.8 KiB)<br><br>p7p1 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 08:00:27:D2:29:56 <br>
inet6 addr: fe80::a00:27ff:fed2:2956/64 Scope:Link<br> UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1<br> RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0<br> TX packets:43 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0<br>
collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000 <br> RX bytes:0 (0.0 b) TX bytes:13122 (12.8 KiB)<br><br>[root@ipa-test0 ~]#</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><br>
</span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">Any idea where these strange names come from and what the significance of them is?</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">Thanks.</span></div>
<div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; "><br></span></div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: collapse; color: rgb(34, 34, 34); font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; ">Boris.</span></div>