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On Fri, 26 Sep 2014 05:27:15 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> > I buy machines with one ethernet interface. What I find |
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> > particularly annoying is this doublespeak about calling it |
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> > "predictable". Before the change, it was predicatbly "eth0". Now, |
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> > it's different on every different model. |
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> It's not doublespeak, the interfaces are named exactly according to |
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> where they are on the PCI bus. If you had two interfaces, they show up |
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> to the kernel in random order by time and sometimes eth0/eth1 are nto |
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> the same they were before the reboot. |
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That may be true for PCI devices but not for USB ones. If you unplug a |
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USB device and plug it back into the same port, it will get a different |
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device number. The naming is more predictable, but it's not there yet. |
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Neil Bothwick |
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The gene pool could use a little chlorine. |
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