Fedora 16 killed my eth0 ?

[Zoltan Szecsei]

On 2012/04/04 10:55, Andrew Haley wrote:
> On 04/04/2012 06:47 AM, Zoltan Szecsei wrote:
>> Well, perhaps someone should also think about impact of name-changing.
>> Quite frankly, what's in a name, so why change it?
> It's because in the old scheme when a machine had several ports the
> mapping between the physical hardware and the dev nodes was not fixed:
> the kernel would just assign names as it found interfaces.  This
> caused a fair bit of inconvenience.
>
>>  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.
> Put a symlink in?
Hmmmm.... I (you) have a cunning plan   [in the fine words of Private 
Baldrick]

I'll try it out - thanks.
Zoltan
>
> Andrew.


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