On Fri, 26 Sep 2014 05:27:15 +0200, Alan McKinnon wrote:

> >   I buy machines with one ethernet interface.  What I find
> > particularly annoying is this doublespeak about calling it
> > "predictable".  Before the change, it was predicatbly "eth0".  Now,
> > it's different on every different model.

> It's not doublespeak, the interfaces are named exactly according to
> where they are on the PCI bus. If you had two interfaces, they show up
> to the kernel in random order by time and sometimes eth0/eth1 are nto
> the same they were before the reboot.

That may be true for PCI devices but not for USB ones. If you unplug a
USB device and plug it back into the same port, it will get a different
device number. The naming is more predictable, but it's not there yet.


-- 
Neil Bothwick

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