On Sun, Apr 12, 2020 Tom Horsley <horsley1953@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, 12 Apr 2020 Jack Craig wrote: >> further reading of some RH portal docs, i decided my notion was an >> unacceptable step backward in techs stream of forward progress. > > I consider the "improvement" a step backwards. Certainly for > a desktop system with one and only one ethernet port. The > immutable name for a single ethernet port should always > be "eth0" :-). The improvement's when you have a multiple NICs and swap one out. You no longer have to edit "/etc/udev/rules.d/<something>.rules" in order to have the swapped-in NIC keep the name of the swapped-out NIC. > (Especially since "immutable" names have changed several times > with new kernels, switching to systemd in charge instead of > biosdevname etc). systemd over-promised in [1] when it claimed "Stable interface names when kernels or drivers are updated/changed". In [2], there's a more realistic "Newer versions of udev take more of these attributes into account, improving (and thus possibly changing) the names and addresses used for the same devices", assuming that this is referring to a driver or firmware change. [1] https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PredictableNetworkInterfaceNames/ [2] https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.net-naming-scheme.html _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
