On 01/23/2013 12:26 PM, Matthew Miller wrote: > Also, I strongly question this line in the Feature page: > > "Users generally won't see this, as interface names are not exposed in > high-level UIs." > > This is simply not true for many values of the word "user"
I agree with Matthew that ordinary users do see and use the interface names. The most common usage on my network is "ifconfig -a" to answer the question, "What is (are) my IP address(es) today?" Propagation of changes to DNS (multiple competing connections available) takes too long and is unreliable. I further agree that the recent name changes due to biosdevname should be the last for a very long time. That is, anything which might replace biosdevname must produce the same answers as biosdevname. -- -- devel mailing list devel@lists.fedoraproject.org https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
