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Domsch: Consistent Network Device Naming coming to Fedora 15Domsch: Consistent Network Device Naming coming to Fedora 15Posted Jan 31, 2011 16:50 UTC (Mon) by bronson (subscriber, #4806)In reply to: Domsch: Consistent Network Device Naming coming to Fedora 15 by cesarb Parent article: Domsch: Consistent Network Device Naming coming to Fedora 15
Love it. And if the catchall 's' is unweildy, you can have 'sp' for PCI, 'si' for ISA, etc.
As an ex-NOCmonkey, I really like the attention paid to phone readability. When the servers are on fire and the whole team is conferenced together, it's not fun to spend a minute trying to agree on what '#' and '_' are called.
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Domsch: Consistent Network Device Naming coming to Fedora 15 Posted Jan 31, 2011 21:40 UTC (Mon) by cesarb (subscriber, #6266) [Link]
> And if the catchall 's' is unweildy, you can have 'sp' for PCI, 'si' for ISA, etc.
I believe that is not the idea. The idea is, as far as I understood, to match the *labels* on the outside of the server. So the slot marked as "1" on the outside of the server should have a "1" on its network interface name, indifferent as to whether it is a PCI slot, a PCI-X slot, a PCIE slot, an ExpressCard slot some crazy hardware designer decided to add to a server, or some even crazier stuff (SDIO perhaps?).
Putting it in another way, what is in the inside (the bus used) does not matter, it is what is on the outside (the onboard port numbered Y or the slot numbered Z) that matters.
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