On 01/23/2014 06:40 PM, Rejy M Cyriac wrote: > On 01/23/2014 06:21 PM, poma wrote: >> On 23.01.2014 07:40, Rejy M Cyriac wrote: >>> On 01/20/2014 10:28 AM, Ranjan Maitra wrote: >> … >>>> While I am here, I also wanted to know the answer to the question as >>>> to how the interfaces are decided in latter-day Fedoras: to elucidate, >>>> it used to be that eth0 and wlan0 and ppp0 were the interfaces. Now it >>>> seems to depend (and vary from one machine to the other). How do these >>>> get decided nowadays? Is there a generic way to get to the correct >>>> interface to use in programming? I am thinking of conky which requires >>>> the interface (from ifconfig, say) to set up signal strength, etc. >>>> >>> That would be biosdevname. It has been around for some time now. >> >> $ rpm -q biosdevname >> package biosdevname is not installed ;) >> >> Predictable Network Interface Names [1] >> $ man 7 udev >> >> $ nmcli device status >> DEVICE TYPE STATE >> enp1s9 ethernet connected >> >> >> poma >> >> >> [1] >> http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PredictableNetworkInterfaceNames/ >> http://cgit.freedesktop.org/systemd/systemd/tree/src/udev/udev-builtin-net_id.c#n20 >> > > Interesting. I stand corrected. Thanks poma. :-) > > Does that mean we cannot disable the feature by a kernel parameter any > more ? > Hold on. But I do see it on my Fedora 20 system. $ rpm -q biosdevname biosdevname-0.5.0-2.fc20.x86_64 - rejy (rmc) -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Fedora Code of Conduct: http://fedoraproject.org/code-of-conduct Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines Have a question? Ask away: http://ask.fedoraproject.org
