Brutkey

nixCraft 🐧
@nixCraft@mastodon.social

Who misses the old Linux Ethernet names? Remember when your network interfaces were just eth0 and eth1? Now we have long names like enp0s25. Let's see where you stand.

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• The new names are better (0)
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Albert Westra
@odysseywestra@linuxrocks.online

@nixCraft@mastodon.social My question is, why do we have those overcomplicated names for ethernet interfaces?

Richard Nairn
@RichardNairn@mstdn.ca

@odysseywestra@linuxrocks.online @nixCraft@mastodon.social I believe it was so they were deterministic based on bus/slot location . Plugging in a new device could have reordered eth0,eth1. But the new naming “fixed” that.