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 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. Hence why I like naming my interfaces things like 'wan', 'wifilan' and 'wiredlan'.
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