I'm shocked, shocked!

[J.Witvliet at mindef.nl]

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From: users-bounces at lists.fedoraproject.org [mailto:users-bounces at lists.fedoraproject.org] On Behalf Of Tom H
Sent: zondag 31 mei 2015 15:23
To: Fedora Users
Subject: Re: I'm shocked, shocked!

On Sat, May 30, 2015 at 1:37 PM, Tom Horsley <horsley1953 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> To see that the "predictable" network name for my one and only 
> ethernet port has changed once again.
> On fedora 22 eno1 is what used to be em1.

That's because you've moved from one "predictable" scheme to another...

em1 is a name assigned by biosdevname where "em" stands for "embedded"
(although I've seen an "ethernet on motherboard" explanation) and the generic name is "em<port_number>". The other biosdevname option is "p<slot_number>p<port_number> where the first "p" stands for "pci".

eno1 is a name assigned by udev where "en" stands for ethernet and "o"
for onboard. From "man systemd.link":

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So, if you use Ethernet connection, based on the same sort of hardware, but one located on the MOBO, one on a PCI-card and one on a USB-connector, they all got different names. That's bad.
But even worse, it means that scripts designed for totally hardware agnostic configuration, now should determine where a piece of hardware is located. That's the inverse of progress....

I wonder if "old" behavior (like ETHnn) can be retrieved by NamePolicy ="database"

HW.



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