On 22/08/2017 at 15:36, Didier Kryn wrote: [...]
> The advantage of supporting an option like "hwaddr=a0:d3:c1:9d:a5:86" > is that the admin is free to specify interfaces by names or by MAC > address. Of course, there is now the possibility to change the MAC address > of an interface, but this is a case of severe hacking where the admin has > to understand what s?he does. I wholeheartedly agree. Actually, changing an interface's MAC address is not at all "severe hacking", it's as easy as running ip link set address 00:e0:4d:78:5b:5b dev eth0, but a boot script needs not do that and anyway there are tools that can extract the MAC address directly from the hardware. Alessandro _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list [email protected] https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
