jon.dowland.name log - Tue, 29/01/2013 - 7:37pm
On Linux, network interface device naming has been somewhat chaotic: depending
on a number of factors, eth0 today might not be eth0 tomorrow. For me, this
has never been a problem in practice. At work, our physical servers have a bank
of on-mainboard network ports, all managed by the same driver and so are
assigned names predictably. For our virtual machines, the same is true: 99% of
the time they have one network interface, but when they have more than one,
they are of the same type and so are assigned predictably.