Consistent Network Device Naming: Difference between revisions

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* <tt>{{Mono|em[1-N]</tt>}} for on-board (embedded) NICs (# matches chassis labels)
* <tt>{{Mono|p<slot_number>p<port_number></tt>}} for cards in [[Peripheral Component Interconnect|PCI]] slots, ports starting at 1 (not zero)
* <tt>{{Mono|NPAR</tt>}} and <tt>{{Mono|SR-IOV</tt>}} devices add a suffix of <tt>{{Mono|_<vf></tt>}}, from 0..N depending on the number of Partitions or Virtual Functions exposed on each port
* Other Linux conventions, such as <tt>{{Mono|.<vlan></tt>}} and <tt>{{Mono|:<alias></tt>}} suffixes remain unchanged and are still applicable<ref name="red">{{Cite web |url= http://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Deployment_Guide/appe-Consistent_Network_Device_Naming.html |work= Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 documentation |title= Appendix A. Consistent Network Device Naming |accessdate= May 27, 2013 }}</ref>
 
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