Linux Plumbers Conf 2009

Excerpt

Description

Network devices have but a single name, and for systems with > 1 NIC, it’s probably wrong. System administrators have long believed that ‘eth0’ was meaningful (i.e. it is the NIC that the system booted from, or is the first NIC on the motherboard of a system). However, for many reasons, this name is arbitrary, and may change from boot to boot. We need network device name aliases, just as we do for disk devices (/dev/disk/by-label/…, /dev/disk/by-uuid/…), so we can provide several meaningful names to network devices also.

Tags

networking, device naming

Speaker

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  Matt Domsch

  Dell
  • Website: http://domsch.com/

  Biography

  Matt Domsch is a Technology Strategist in Dell’s Office of the CTO, focusing on Linux and Virtualization. For nearly a decade he has lead the engineering teams developing Linux for Dell’s full product line of systems. He is a member of the Fedora Project Board. He has presented at numerous conferences, including the Linux Sympoisum, LinuxWorldExpo, and the Red Hat Summit. Matt holds a B.S. in Computer Science and Engineering from MIT and a M.S. in Computer Science from Vanderbilt University.