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Domsch: Consistent Network Device Naming coming to Fedora 15

Domsch: Consistent Network Device Naming coming to Fedora 15

Posted Jan 30, 2011 16:59 UTC (Sun) by nix (subscriber, #2304)
In reply to: Domsch: Consistent Network Device Naming coming to Fedora 15 by jmm82
Parent article: Domsch: Consistent Network Device Naming coming to Fedora 15

Agreed. It feels like a horrible and gratuitously nonportable layering violation to use PCI bus IDs for anything related to networking... I suppose in this case they *want* ambiguity, so that they'll get the same name on *every* machine with a card plugged into the same slot. Seems really risky to me, but, hell, I'm not the target market.


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