How can I prevent udevd from renaming eth0 to em1

[Bill Davidsen]

Matthew Miller wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 16, 2012 at 01:56:51PM -0600, JD wrote:
>> What a useless package that does  not solve anything, but creates new
>> problems for everyone.
>
> That's really not the case. It may not solve anything for *you*, but it does
> address a real problem. Maybe not perfectly, but we can fix the bugs.
>
>
The first step is to realize that your solution is viewed as a bug by many 
people. The very server people this was supposed to help will tell you that a 
naming convention which changes the name if you plug a NIC into a different slot 
doesn't fit their labels on cables and NICs. Not to disparage any vendor, but 
moving cards to address thermal issues isn't rare. I know some sites like to 
label slots so a failing NIC can be swapped, but honestly the days of failing 
NICs on server grade equipment have been gone for a few decades now.

Any machine with a single NIC should get it named eth0, which is backward 
compatible and probably represents the majority of Fedora users.

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