From 3c31f15cdb34f8ef4f49f576f0f2bf5aebf5370c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: LennartPoettering Date: Tue, 22 Jan 2013 20:16:41 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] --- docs/PredictableNetworkInterfaceNames.moin | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/PredictableNetworkInterfaceNames.moin b/docs/PredictableNetworkInterfaceNames.moin index 80dd6544ecc..cefd166ceca 100644 --- a/docs/PredictableNetworkInterfaceNames.moin +++ b/docs/PredictableNetworkInterfaceNames.moin @@ -47,6 +47,8 @@ With this new scheme you now get: * 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. + == I don't like this, how do I disable this? == You basically have three options: -- 2.47.3