On 12/01/2010 07:55 AM, Ralf Ertzinger wrote: > Hi. > > On Wed, 1 Dec 2010 01:33:33 +0000 (UTC), Ben Boeckel wrote: > >> Why? FreeBSD (and other BSDs, I'm sure) have been naming network >> interfaces based on the manufacturer, at least, for a while now (I >> personally started with 7.x and am unsure of when that was new). I was >> always curious why eth* was used on Linux actually. > > And I always thought that this was a pretty weird way to do things, after > all, why does the userspace care who made which network card? > > I think I can live with the biosdevname stuff, though, after all it > distinguishes by physical position (which as meaning) instead of vendor > (which does not). Yes indeed thank you!! I have always found it weird whenever I upgraded a NIC on my firewall, that I had to hand edit the udev rules to keep the firewall rules sane. Having the name associated with the physical location is great. Now I can change NIC cards and not have to worry the firewall rules will turn the DMZ into the internal side .. :-) Thank you!! -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
