* The same on all distributions that adopted systemd/udev
* It's easy to opt out of the scheme (see below)
+Does this have any drawbacks? Yes, it does. Previously it was practically guaranteed that hosts equipped with a single ethernet card only had a single "eth0" interface. An administrator now has to check first what the local interface name is before he can invoke commands on it where previously he had a good chance that "eth0" was the right name.
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== I don't like this, how do I disable this? ==
You basically have three options: