[rhelv6-list] RHEL7 NIC naming convention

[Gianluca Cecchi]

On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 8:08 AM, Romu wrote:
> RHEL7 uses different names for NICs, in RHEL4/5/6 it's always eth0/1/2/3...,
> but in RHEL7 I've seen em1/2, ens3...  What is the rule here?  How can I
> know whether the NIC name will be em or ens?
>

It can be useful reading from here from which RHEL 7 inherits:
http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/18/html/System_Administrators_Guide/appe-Consistent_Network_Device_Naming.html

Gianluca