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 'eth0' to be particularly friendly, either. Hence >> why I like naming my interfaces things like 'wan', 'wifilan' and >> 'wiredlan'. > > Relative to 'lan' or 'wan', no, but relative to an embedded MAC address?
Honestly, with IPv6, I get so accustomed to recognizing the last three or four octets of MAC addresses, that idea is starting to grow on me, too! It's like recognizing phone numbers, really. You eventually just start remembering enough of the thing to be useful. If the system isn't smart enough to apply a solid semantic name (like my 'wan', 'wifilan' or 'wiredlan'), I'd rather it not try to apply a semantic name (eth0 or net0) at all. But you're hearing this come from a C++ programmer turned network admin, so take that with a grain of salt. :)
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