LCS interface names
When an LCS group device is set online, the LCS device driver automatically assigns an Ethernet interface name to it.
The naming scheme uses the base name eth<n>,
where <n> is an integer that uniquely identifies
the device. When the first device for a base name is set online it
is assigned 0, the second is assigned 1, the third 2, and so on. For
example, the interface name of the first Ethernet feature that is
set online is eth0
, and the second eth1
.
The LCS device driver shares the name space for Ethernet interfaces with other
network device drivers. Each driver uses the name with the lowest free identifier
<n>, regardless of which device driver occupies the other names. For
example, if at the time the first LCS Ethernet feature is set online, there is already one qeth
Ethernet feature online, the qeth feature is named eth0
and the LCS feature is named
eth1
.