Re: what is UUID of a network card

03-07-2010, 05:00 PM

markryde wrote:

> I had noticed that there is an entry called UUID in the
> network configuration file in newer Fedora distros; this UUID entry
> did not exists on older distros.
> My question is: for what is this entry? what will happen if I will
> comment it?
> I am talking about /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0
> configuration file, which contains a UUID like this:
> UUID=5fb06bd1-0bb0-7ffb-45f1-d6edd65f3e11

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Univers...que_Identifier

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