What decides a network interfaces' name on first boot?

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Issue

  • When installing a new system various interfaces on various network cards do not follow a typical naming convention such as 'eth0' but rather 'em1' and 'p1p1'. Why are these names different?

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6

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