On 21-08-17 06:30, Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting Steve Litt (slitt@???):
>
>> As a wee lad, my mentors told me never to put two of the same model
>> NICs in a computer, because which one became eth0 and which became eth1
>> would be indeterminate from boot to boot.
> It's funny you'll say that, and not just because we're both old enough
> that advice we got as 'wee lads' would probably have to involve
> sliderules. I'll get back to that, later.
>
>> That's horrible, and that *is* solved by the systemd naming scheme.
> I find myself in the position of being a little unconvinced about the
> extent and seriousness of the problem, even though I don't have
> exhaustive data, only a few decades of *ix experience to draw on.
> Let me try to draw a distinction with some nuance, here: To the best of
> my knowledge -- and my knowledge might be incomplete or unaware of some
> new developments -- 'spontaneous' network device renaming, just like
> spontaneous mass storage device renaming, happens _only_ following
> admin-initiated hardware reshuffles.
---snip

I do remember this switching of network cards happened spurious on
SME-Server 8 (a RHEL based SMB distribution for e-mail, fileserver and
firewall with a webinterface). With other distro's like Suse, Debian,
Ubuntu and Mandrake i never have seen this happen.

Grtz.

Nick