From 5cdf8ae9c8906000e874c98bd6f86b7d3a6920be Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Madper Xie Date: Sun, 8 Jul 2018 17:43:40 +0800 Subject: [PATCH] It should be systemd who provides the PCI address based name. According to [1], starting with v197, systemd will automatically assign a predictable nic name. [1]: https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PredictableNetworkInterfaceNames/ --- README | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/README b/README index 54c2075..5b4175d 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ mTCP can be prepared in three ways. on this page: http://dpdk.org/doc/nics. Please make sure that your NIC is compatible before moving on to the next step. - - recent Linux kernels tend to rename Ethernet interfaces based on + - recent Systemd tend to rename Ethernet interfaces based on their PCI addresses. If you are using Intel based Ethernet adapters, please rename the interface with a ``dpdk`` prefix. You can do so using the following command: