| created on | August 21, 2025 |
There are several naming schemes in Linux: the “traditional” or “classic” naming scheme of the nineties with iface names eth0, eth1, wlan0, wlan1, etc. Interfaces get their names assigned by the kernel on a first-come, first-serve policy as they are probed by the network interface drivers. With nowadays complex hardware, this way of naming is no longer predictable if more than one interface of a kind (ethernet, wlan, …) exists in the machine....