is DEVICE in ifcfg-* redundant?

[Ralf Ertzinger]

Hi.

On Fri, 10 Aug 2007 13:33:55 +0200, Stepan Kasal wrote:

> in most cases, /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-foo contains
> DEVICE=foo
> 
> 1) Are there cases, where the file name differs from ifcfg-$DEVICE?

Yes. Dial-In configurations created by system-config-network differ
there.

Also, I (personally) name my openvpn configurations so that I say
"ifup Companyvpn" instead of "ifup ovpn15". The former is simply
easier to remember :)