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From: Peter Stuge <peter@×××××.se>
To: gentoo-dev@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] call for testers: udev predictable network interface names
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2013 16:48:20
Message-Id: 20130117164806.22893.qmail@stuge.se
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] call for testers: udev predictable network interface names by Tobias Klausmann
1 Tobias Klausmann wrote:
2 > It has been rather nifty that if I walk up to a random machine
3 > with exactly one NIC (that I've been asked to examine/fix), I
4 > _know_ that there will be eth0 and only that.
5
6 Only as long as that system hasn't seen *another* NIC first, if it
7 has persistent interface name udev rules.
8
9
10 //Peter

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