[systemd-devel] RFC: Predictable Network Interface Names

[Tomasz Torcz]

On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 07:29:10PM +0100, Kay Sievers wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 7:19 PM, Tomasz Torcz <tomek at pipebreaker.pl> wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 12, 2013 at 09:07:00AM +0100, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> >>
> >> On Monday 2013-01-07 23:29, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> >> >
> >> >For your example the new code would pick a name of "enp0s0d0", i.e. for
> >> >pci bus 0, slot 0, and dev_id 0.
> >>
> >> Is it Solaris time yet? enp0s0d0, that's just like c0t0d0s0. And
> >
> >   Heh, just in time when Solaris 11 deprecated such names, choosing
> > to name interfaces as net0, net1, net2....
> 
> The Solaris disk names are based on meaningless unpredictable
> enumerations, they have never been topology based. They are just 3
> levels deep, which made them only slightly better than a single
> number, it's still the same useless enumeration with "inventing"
> artificial numbers.
> 
> I don't remember seeing topology based names for network interfaces on
> Solaris, they did that?

  Not really, just "driver name""detection order" - ixgb0, nge1 etc.

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