On Tue, 2020-04-14 at 00:26 +0200, Tom H wrote: > 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. My understanding of how the device names were generated was that if you didn't replace a NIC with an identical model, in the exact same spot, you could well end up with a different device name. There was an order of how to name things, starting at the top, going down the list if that scheme wasn't do-able: Firmware or BIOS can form the device name. Board location can form the name (derived from things like PCI slot 2). Number of connectors on the board can be used in forming the name (adding more details to the above naming scheme). Heck knows what mine's derived from (enp0s31f6 is the motherboard's own built in ethernet), and I can never remember that. -- uname -rsvp Linux 3.10.0-1062.18.1.el7.x86_64 #1 SMP Tue Mar 17 23:49:17 UTC 2020 x86_64 Boilerplate: All unexpected mail to my mailbox is automatically deleted. I will only get to see the messages that are posted to the mailing list. _______________________________________________ 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
