On Fri, 18 Dec 2009 18:49:15 +0530 <Narendra_K@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > The installer solution involved renaming the network interface names > from ethN to something else based on the naming convention that the user > specified. For example, if the user chose "smbios names" as the the > naming convention then all ethN would be renamed to Embedded_NIC_N. > ifconfig would show Embedded_NIC_N instead of ethN. Renaming away from ethN causes some applications like net-snmp to get confused, and others have special sorting rules based on existing model (like quagga). I would argue that the "ethN" convention is part of existing system ABI and should not get changed in a visible way to applications. -- -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe netfilter-devel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
