On Sun, 31 Mar 2013 21:34:51 +0100, Kevin Chadwick wrote:
What about USB network adaptors? A user may not even realise they
plugged it into a different USB slot from last time, yet the device
name changes.
Fair point but wouldn't that be only if you plug in two of the same
type that
On Mon, 01 Apr 2013 03:02:51 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
What about USB network adaptors? A user may not even realise they
plugged it into a different USB slot from last time, yet the device
name changes.
congratulation, you just found another reason why today's udev sucks.
I take
On Sun, 31 Mar 2013 15:40:09 +0100, Kevin Chadwick wrote:
I find the OpenBSD method of different names like fxp0 usefuk
You can emulate that with suitable (e)udev rules.
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On Apr 1, 2013 1:54 PM, Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote:
On Sun, 31 Mar 2013 21:34:51 +0100, Kevin Chadwick wrote:
What about USB network adaptors? A user may not even realise they
plugged it into a different USB slot from last time, yet the device
name changes.
Fair point
On Mon, 1 Apr 2013 13:57:42 +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote:
I still don't understand what's so bad with MAC-based identification? I
mean, uniqueness defined through MAC Address identity, the system name
is just a label...
MAC addresses are not human-friendly. It would be OK if you could set up
On 04/01/2013 09:12 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Mon, 1 Apr 2013 13:57:42 +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote:
I still don't understand what's so bad with MAC-based identification? I
mean, uniqueness defined through MAC Address identity, the system name
is just a label...
MAC addresses are not
On Mon, 1 Apr 2013 14:12:17 +0100
Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote:
I still don't understand what's so bad with MAC-based
identification? I mean, uniqueness defined through MAC Address
identity, the system name is just a label...
MAC addresses are not human-friendly. It would be
On Mon, 01 Apr 2013 09:29:08 -0400, Michael Mol wrote:
MAC addresses are not human-friendly. It would be OK if you could set
up aliases, so your firewall rules could use enaabbccddeeff while you
could still type eth0.
Frankly, I never found 'eth0' to be particularly friendly, either.
On 04/01/2013 09:54 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Mon, 01 Apr 2013 09:29:08 -0400, Michael Mol wrote:
MAC addresses are not human-friendly. It would be OK if you could set
up aliases, so your firewall rules could use enaabbccddeeff while you
could still type eth0.
Frankly, I never found
On Sun, 31 Mar 2013 11:48:19 + (UTC)
Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg) nunojsi...@ist.utl.pt wrote:
instead of pushing a completely
different (and possibly less reliable) naming scheme by default.
Whilst I wouldn't want them changing on me (though if your physically
changing the pci slot then you
On Sun, 31 Mar 2013 15:40:09 +0100, Kevin Chadwick wrote:
instead of pushing a completely
different (and possibly less reliable) naming scheme by default.
Whilst I wouldn't want them changing on me (though if your physically
changing the pci slot then you should be able to handle the
On 03/31/2013 03:55 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
On Sun, 31 Mar 2013 15:40:09 +0100, Kevin Chadwick wrote:
instead of pushing a completely
different (and possibly less reliable) naming scheme by default.
Whilst I wouldn't want them changing on me (though if your physically
changing the pci
On Sun, 31 Mar 2013 20:55:00 +0100
Neil Bothwick n...@digimed.co.uk wrote:
What about USB network adaptors? A user may not even realise they
plugged it into a different USB slot from last time, yet the device
name changes.
Fair point but wouldn't that be only if you plug in two of the same
Am 31.03.2013 21:55, schrieb Neil Bothwick:
On Sun, 31 Mar 2013 15:40:09 +0100, Kevin Chadwick wrote:
instead of pushing a completely
different (and possibly less reliable) naming scheme by default.
Whilst I wouldn't want them changing on me (though if your physically
changing the pci slot
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