Why does my system have a network interface called ibft0 ?

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Issue

  • Why does one of my systems have a network interface called ibft0 ?
  • The system logs contain an entry like the following:
udev: renamed network interface eth1 to ibft0

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 6.4
  • system on iSCSI
  • iBFT used to hand over IP/iSCSI target data to RHEL

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