On Sat, Aug 26, 2017 at 07:02:41PM +0200, Alessandro Selli wrote: > On Sat, 26 Aug 2017 at 17:19:48 +0200 > Didier Kryn <k...@in2p3.fr> wrote: > > > AFAIR I fully agreed on that and then it jumped into my face that > > the renaming wasn't necessary at all, because it is sufficient to know > > the MAC address and ignore completely the interface name. It is just > > enough for this to work that the tools manipulating the network > > interfaces can be given the MAC address instead of the interface name. > > This opens an alternative to renaming: guaranteed stable interface > > reference, no race condition and no need for a new name space. > > This is not a good solution when you want networking to work just the same > even when you replace or shuffle your networking hardware around, expecially > with USB devices.
It seems we are approaching the paradox of the well-darned sock. At what point are we to consider an interface to have changed? -- hendrik _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
