Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
On Wed, 2013-06-19 at 08:13 +0200, Per Jessen wrote:
Carlos E. R. wrote:
On Wednesday, 2013-06-19 at 00:23 -0400, Anton Aylward wrote:
At that level does it really matter what the nomenclature is? "ethX" is nice but the alternative aren't show stoppers.
If it doesn't matter, why not let the names be what they were, why change? What's the rationale for changing the names, do we need that?
There is roughly zero rationale, but rest assured Carlos, you DO need it. Don't your network interfaces change their names all the time?
I welcome the new names. We use ethernet cards to capture data from various measurement transducers (cameras, lasers, distance/time gauges, etc). If a card breaks (and they do),
Your cards are in a rough(er) environment I guess - I don't recall when I last had to replace a broken network card. The majority of my network interfaces are probably embedded anyway. In my experience, fans, disks, power-supplies and optical drives break and batteries need replacing from time to to time.
replacing it is a pita because the original ethX names are replaced by then next unused ones. Unless you fiddle around in YaST.
Or simply amend '/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-network-names.conf' with the new MAC address.
If the name could be based on the slot the card is in, then swapping out a card would be much easier.
That's what you'll be getting in 13.1. Careful that you put the new card in the same slot, otherwise you'll get a new name.
I need to check how multi-port cards are named based on the slot the card is in...
I think they're given names with 'fN' appended. The names I keep referring to: enp13s0, enp14s0 - embedded interfaces. enp3s1f0, enp3s1f1 - dual-port NIC. enp6s2 - single fibre interface. -- Per Jessen, Zürich (23.6°C) http://www.dns24.ch/ - free DNS hosting, made in Switzerland. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org