<html><body><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000"><div><br></div><div><br></div><hr id="zwchr" data-marker="__DIVIDER__"><div data-marker="__HEADERS__"><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid #1010FF; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="border-left: 2px solid #1010FF; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"><b>From: </b>"Alex Carver" <agcarver+ale@acarver.net><br><b>To: </b>ale@ale.org<br><b>Sent: </b>Thursday, February 9, 2017 6:16:15 PM<br><b>Subject: </b>Re: [ale] eth numbering change<br></blockquote></div><div data-marker="__QUOTED_TEXT__"><blockquote style="border-left: 2px solid #1010FF; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;" data-mce-style="border-left: 2px solid #1010FF; margin-left: 5px; padding-left: 5px; color: #000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-decoration: none; font-family: Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;">On 2017-02-09 14:33, DJ-Pfulio wrote:<br>> <br><br>> <br>> On 02/09/2017 03:44 PM, Phil Turmel wrote:<br>>>>> Don't use ethX names with modern kernels. Period.<br><br>Ah, figures this was a systemd concept<br><br><ducks and runs><br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>It does suck, but in this case I think they make a valid point. I gripped about this sometime back and then read up on it.</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>In my case I remove the config layer from the user where I install CentOS or RHEL. My config code is setup to look for eth0. Those bits need to change to those machines so that I know what LAN1 is.</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div>USB is very unpredictable. Many times I need to map a physical device with a real config. Network interfaces allow me to use MAC. Cheap USB->Serial cables do not even have a serial # flashed so I have to resort to physical USB port to tie a config to one.</div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div><div><br data-mce-bogus="1"></div></div></div></body></html>