[sles-beta] SLES12 network interface names

[Thorsten Kukuk]

On Mon, Mar 24, Simon Flood wrote:

> On 24/03/2014 10:54, Joe Doupnik wrote:
>
>> At this point I think the networking material needs a careful review.
>
> Another vote for this just based on a very simple situation I've just hit 
> with a freshly installed Beta 3 VM:
>
> linux:~ # ifconfig
> eno167777 Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:0C:29:4C:51:57
>
> Okay so my interface name is eno167777 ...

And because of such problems ifconfig was declared obsolete
decades ago and we have "ip link".

  Thorsten

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