[sles-beta] SLES12 network interface names

[Simon Flood]

On 24/03/2014 14:57, Thorsten Kukuk wrote:

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

That may be but "ifconfig" tells me what I'm looking for (IP address 
details) whereas "ip link" doesn't. Whilst "ip addr" is better it's 
still not as useful.

If I just wanted interface names I could instead do "ls /sys/class/net" 
but "ifconfig" is shorter.

At the moment I can see having to write a script that iterates the 
enoXXXXXXXX interfaces to come up with rules that renames them back to 
something more sensible (ethX). Whilst stupid it at least fixes 
post-install but I still have a big question about auto-installs.
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Simon Flood
Novell/SUSE/NetIQ Knowledge Partner