Hi.
On Wed, 1 Dec 2010 01:33:33 +0000 (UTC), Ben Boeckel wrote:
Why? FreeBSD (and other BSDs, I'm sure) have been naming network
interfaces based on the manufacturer, at least, for a while now (I
personally started with 7.x and am unsure of when that was new). I was
always curious why eth* was used on Linux actually.
And I always thought that this was a pretty weird way to do things, after
all, why does the userspace care who made which network card?
I think I can live with the biosdevname stuff, though, after all it
distinguishes by physical position (which as meaning) instead of vendor
(which does not).