Support for biosdevname in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1

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Summary

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1 provides consistent network device naming for network interfaces. This feature changes the name of network interfaces on a system in order to make locating and differentiating the interfaces easier.

Description

Traditionally, network interfaces in Linux are enumerated as eth[0123...], but these names do not necessarily correspond to...

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