I was somewhat frustrated when network interface enumeration suddenly changed (around 6.3) in a seemingly random manner. I noticed the madness now had a pattern... and regardless of my attempts to manually manage my interfaces using UDEV (as I had in the past) it would just screw everything up. So - I conceded and allowed the system to manage itself how it wanted and I discovered that was the best option. In the past, you may end up with eth0 being on a PCI card, while the onboard would be eth3. Since the release of the new standard, the onboard are identified as em (for "embedded" I believe) and the other network interfaces are identified by slot number and interface (i.e. p2p1 - slot 2, eth 1). A person who posts on the Red Hat Customer Portal had an amazing find and submitted the following: ....Dell (who wrote biosdevname and released it under GPL) have two white papers on the subject at the project page: http://linux.dell.com/biosdevname/ From the Consistent N...
Linux: The whole world made it for you... This blog is a collection of things I come across either at home or at work as a Linux Administrator. I have worked as an Admin working with Solaris, SAN, Backups and Linux at the Enterprise level for over 16 years.