Feico Dillema wrote:

> I think it is historical, combined with having no reason to change it.
> Having your ehterhnet interface called eth0 consistently, has only
> advantages on desktop machines with only a single ethernet card.


Is that not reason enough?  It would be very nice to be able to swap a 
failing ethernet card with a replacement with a different chipset 
without having to edit several files in /etc.

Ideally, you could swap out an ethernet card in a box with multiple 
cards and not have it's number change, which would allow one to fix a 
hardware problem without editing files (good for 3rd party remote data 
centre fixes).  I'm not sure how cards are numbered on different arch's, 
however, so this may not be a practical goal.

Mike.