Re: A question about 7

[John R Pierce <pierce@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 1/14/2014 5:17 PM, Warren Young wrote:
> I don't know about "less consistent", but I always considered it a
> feature in Linux vs the BSDs or big iron Unix that I could always count
> on the first network interface being "eth0".  BSD and big iron Unix
> named the interface after the Ethernet driver, as if that was what was
> important.

conversely, it wasn't always consistent WHICH NIC would be eth0. Had 
several x86 servers with dual integral nic's where eth0/eth1 were 
swapped relative to what RHEL/CentOS thought they were.   while you 
COULD force it via mucking about in some kernel file or another, it was 
rarely worth the hassle.



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john r pierce                                      37N 122W
somewhere on the middle of the left coast

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