NIC interface names

[Boris Epstein <borepstein@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hello listmates,

I recently installed Fedora 16 as a guest VM under VirtualBox and instead of the usual eth0/eth1 etc. names I got the following:

[root@ipa-test0 ~]# ifconfig
lo������� Link encap:Local Loopback��
��������� inet addr:127.0.0.1� Mask:255.0.0.0
��������� inet6 addr: ::1/128 Scope:Host
��������� UP LOOPBACK RUNNING� MTU:16436� Metric:1
��������� RX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
��������� TX packets:12 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
��������� collisions:0 txqueuelen:0�
��������� RX bytes:812 (812.0 b)� TX bytes:812 (812.0 b)

p2p1����� Link encap:Ethernet� HWaddr 08:00:27:1C:C1:37��
��������� inet addr:10.0.2.15� Bcast:10.0.2.255� Mask:255.255.255.0
��������� inet6 addr: fe80::a00:27ff:fe1c:c137/64 Scope:Link
��������� UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST� MTU:1500� Metric:1
��������� RX packets:1653 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
��������� TX packets:890 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
��������� collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000�
��������� RX bytes:1488287 (1.4 MiB)� TX bytes:58177 (56.8 KiB)

p7p1����� Link encap:Ethernet� HWaddr 08:00:27:D2:29:56��
��������� inet6 addr: fe80::a00:27ff:fed2:2956/64 Scope:Link
��������� UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST� MTU:1500� Metric:1
��������� RX packets:0 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
��������� TX packets:43 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
��������� collisions:0 txqueuelen:1000�
��������� RX bytes:0 (0.0 b)� TX bytes:13122 (12.8 KiB)

[root@ipa-test0 ~]#

Any idea where these strange names come from and what the significance of them is?

Thanks.

Boris.

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