Domsch: Consistent Network Device Naming coming to Fedora 15

Big Enterprise customers (the ones Dell, HP and Red Hat sell to) have complex organisations where the team that racks a server in a datacenter is usually not the one that installs the system on it. That creates all kinds of problems on modern servers with multiple nic ports if the team that racks the server and the team that installs software on it have no common reference on what a particular nic port is (The racking team only knows the physical port labels it sees on the server, and the software team only knows the system port labels reported by the OS as displayed on its remote console. What Dell did is try to have both match. It will save lots of awkward phone call to its customers "if I plug it there, what interface do you see in the system, is it the right one this time" "Oops, the non-firewalled nic was plugged on the insecure public switch, etc"