NIC interface names

Boris Epstein borepstein at gmail.com
Fri Nov 18 21:26:58 UTC 2011


On Fri, Nov 18, 2011 at 4:19 PM, Michael Cronenworth <mike at cchtml.com>wrote:

> Boris Epstein wrote:
> > Any idea where these strange names come from and what the significance
> > of them is?
>
> It was a Fedora 15 Feature.
>
> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/ConsistentNetworkDeviceNaming
> --
>

Michael, thanks. Actually I like this feature.

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?

Boris.
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