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Domsch: Consistent Network Device Naming coming to Fedora 15

Domsch: Consistent Network Device Naming coming to Fedora 15

Posted Jan 27, 2011 5:14 UTC (Thu) by josh (subscriber, #17465)
In reply to: Domsch: Consistent Network Device Naming coming to Fedora 15 by clump
Parent article: Domsch: Consistent Network Device Naming coming to Fedora 15

Unlike just about everything else in UNIX, network interfaces don't work like files; no /dev/eth0 exists. And related to that, various assumptions get broken if more than one name exists for a given interface.


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