On 09/28/2013 12:24 PM, Cristian Rodríguez wrote:
El 28/09/13 15:49, Lew Wolfgang escribió:
How would one make reference to the third Ethernet interface in a box that has five? You have to call it something, and changing the name without good reason sounds like something for-profit operating systems would do.
Or, are you saying that we should never need to refer to a network interface by name? No, I am not. what I'm trying to say is that there must be a simple way to determine the needed interface name dynamically.
Or am I missing something? YEs, please read this http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PredictableNetworkInterface... carrefully, particulary the "WHY?" section.
Thanks, that does make sense. I still remember the SunOS 3.3 days where SCSI disks and tapes were named according to their SCSI bus addresses, which were hardware switch selectable. At some point after that the notion (from the Pea Sea world I think) that hardware addressing should be randomized at boot was introduced. Boy, did THAT ever suck! Regards, Lew -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse-factory+owner@opensuse.org