Fedora 10 on an HP EVO D510

[John Summerfield]

Michal Jaegermann wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 04, 2009 at 08:56:10PM +0900, John Summerfield wrote:
>> Michal Jaegermann wrote:
>>> On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 05:03:24PM +0900, John Summerfield wrote:
>>>> You misunderstood me. The wireless came up as eth0.
>>> And?  Something enumerated it first.  If you dislike it then edit that
>>> in /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules. A comment there says
>>> "# You can modify it, as long as you keep each rule on a single line".
>> "no geek required."
> 
> "No geek needed".  Following your criteria only a geek would care
> what specific names were stuck to network interfaces.  Again - why
> do you care?  If you do you are free to adjust things to your taste.
> 
>    Michal
> 
Evidently you haven't had your system mucked up by a kernel upgrade. "no 
geek required" does not mean "no geek allowed," and I do still need to 
care about these things. Renaming network interfaces at random can lead 
to difficulties administering a system remotely.

Whether I care about their names or not, I do care that the cable 
plugged into _that_ socket goes to my ADSL modem, the next one goes to 
the staff network and the third to the student network.

If a kernel upgrade changes the first NIC's configuration from "no IP" 
to "student LAN IP," I have to be on site to sort it out. That's what 
renaming interfaces can do.

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Cheers
John

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