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? Andrew. -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org