2009 08/18/2009 06/19/2009 78 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. 06/19/2009