On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 4:19 PM, Michael Cronenworth <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mike@cchtml.com">mike@cchtml.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">Boris Epstein wrote:<br>
> Any idea where these strange names come from and what the significance<br>
> of them is?<br>
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</div>It was a Fedora 15 Feature.<br>
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<a href="http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/ConsistentNetworkDeviceNaming" target="_blank">http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/ConsistentNetworkDeviceNaming</a><br>
<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">--<br></font></span></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Michael, thanks. Actually I like this feature.</div><div><br></div><div>However, the question is: I've got another Fedora 16 / 32 bit machine installed under VirtualBox, and it has your regular eth0. How could that be?</div>
<div><br></div><div>Boris.</div></div>