On 2013-03-15, Lars Hansson <romaby...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 10:22 PM, Jiri B <ji...@devio.us> wrote: > >> I'm aware of both. So what is this renaming of ifaces good >> for? > > > On Windows it has it's advantages because by default you get stupid and > unhelpful names like "Local Area Connection X". > It's pretty nice to be able to rename it to something useful like "Internal > NIC".
This is more like setting 'descr', the difference is that Windows usually hides the "real" name it uses for the interface.
