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Domsch: Consistent Network Device Naming coming to Fedora 15Domsch: Consistent Network Device Naming coming to Fedora 15Posted Jan 28, 2011 12:57 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304)In reply to: Domsch: Consistent Network Device Naming coming to Fedora 15 by hmh Parent article: Domsch: Consistent Network Device Naming coming to Fedora 15
Desktop? I have servers with twelve NICs here, with 'To Be Filled By OEM' in every single one. I'd change them if I could, but, of course, I can't.
It is generally a mistake to trust system assemblers to get *anything* right that isn't needed to boot Windows with the absolute minimum set of drivers installed. Half the time they can't even get the right amount of RAM installed: what's the likelihood that they'll name network interfaces correctly in obscure BIOS tables?
(Some BIOSes aren't that bad, if the BIOS is something that comes *with* a specific peripheral and is made by the manufacturer of that peripheral. e.g. AtomBIOS on ATI cards. For anything else, the BIOS is liable to be rife with bugs, but even then less rife than the parts of BIOSes meant to be filled out by system assemblers.)
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