Still baffled by choice of ethx

[Duane Clark]

Timothy Murphy wrote:
> 
> I did try this (with system-config-network) but it didn't seem to work.
> Doesn't really matter in my case, as I don't need profiles -
> I was just experimenting.
> But I certainly don't find the system-config-network interface 
> very intuitive.

I found the gui tools a problem too. I resorted to going to the 
/etc/sysconfig/networking and network-scripts folders and renaming all 
the ifcfg-* files to conform to the ethx convention I wanted, and 
editing the device declaration within the files. Seemed to work fine, 
but of course YMMV ;)