Fedora 16 killed my eth0 ?

[Zoltan Szecsei]

On 2012/04/03 23:19, stan wrote:
> On Tue, 3 Apr 2012 21:48:49 +0100
> "'Chris Hall'"<chris.hall.list at highwayman.com>  wrote:
>
>> More important.  Somebody has killed my eth0.  It's gone.  "Device
>> eth0 does not seem to be present..."  I cannot find it anywhere.
> This hasn't happened to me, my card is still named eth0 on F17 - beta.
> However, I've read on this list that for consistency, network cards are
> now named by some combination of hardware and interrupt.  e.g. emp1
> Maybe someone else will clarify, or you can do a search.

Well, perhaps someone should also think about impact of name-changing. 
Quite frankly, what's in a name, so why change it?
 From my side, I have a "no longer supported" SW product that licenses 
itself against the MAC address of ETH0. Yep, ETH0 and not any other name.

For the moment I am sorting this out in 
/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules, but when is some clever 
person going to take that away?

I have to confess that I am not a "hard core" linux user (albeit daily 
having used SUN i386, SCO then Linux since circa 1990-odd) but I am 
severely disappointed at the amount of config stuff that is getting 
hidden by GUI cr*p.
Why not have a branch called Winux, then leave Linux as it was intended: 
ie: NOT to be a Windows OS.
(OK, it's not Linux, but all the desktop managers out there, is it not?)

My rant.

Zoltan








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