Re: wifi on servers and fedora [was Re: 7.2 kernel panic on boot]

[James Hogarth <james.hogarth@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 10 Dec 2015 23:25, "Leroy Tennison" <leroy@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The device I encountered it on had 10 NICS, at installation 6 of them got
the new naming convention and four of them got the eth convention.  I guess
my question is "what's wrong with using the MAC address?"  Yes, I know some
things don't have MAC addresses, let the exceptional situation be the
exception.
>

Because when that PCI express card with the 4-8 ports on it fails and it's
replaced under warranty having the server come back up right away with the
correct configuration since the logical port names haven't changed despite
the change of MAC is useful...
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