Andrey Borzenkov wrote:
В Sat, 18 May 2013 09:08:49 +0200 Per Jessen
пишет: but I thought those interface names were just hilarious.
They are just as good sequence of characters as any other.
I beg to differ. They make me smile, whereas 'eth0' doesn't.
Why do you automatically assume that eth or wlan are any more meaningful?
Please, I am not automatically assuming anything, I am expressing my opinion. When I have a server with four fixed ethernet interfaces numbered 1,2,3,4 by the manufacturer, and a fibre card with another two numbered 0 and 1, I tend to assign names eth0, eth1, eth2, eth3, eth4, eth5 corresponding to the manufacturer's numbering 1-4 and 0-1. To me that is more meaningful than this gibberish: enp13s0, enp14s0, enp3s1f0, enp3s1f1, enp6s2. Using eth0-9 is also more in line with the other enumeration schemes we use - ttyS0-3, scsi0-9, sda-sdz etc. etc. Three key issues that I see 1) The new naming will be different from machine to machine. 2) On some machines it doesn't even work. (probably due to BIOS-problems, but we have to live with those). 3) The names are difficult to express, regardless of which languages one speaks: enp14s0 = ee-en-pee-fourteen-ess-zero. enp3s1f0 = ee-en-pee-three-ess-one-eff-zero". I prefer 'eth0' = "ethernet-zero". -- Per Jessen, Zürich (21.0°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