How can I prevent udevd from renaming eth0 to em1

[Bill Davidsen]

Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 10:56:08PM +0300, sirdeiu wrote:
>> installed from netinstall.iso - KDE desktop. After installation, my
>> NIC's were named with p35pX. So I've just edited
>> /lib/udev/rules.d/71-biosdevname.rules and uncommented the line
>> GOTO="netdevicename_end", saved and rebooted. And got back my ethX
>> names.
>
> When you find completely unreasonable names like p35, it's worth filing a
> bug so it gets better.
>
It is not unreasonable just because it's not useful to you. I think unreasonable 
is not providing a MAC-to-name option as part of the distro, and not making ethN 
the default on any system with only a single NIC, but the default names 
generated do mean something, just something not needed or understood by most users.

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