Miod Vallat <m...@online.fr> wrote: > I'm a bit late to the thread, but whatever its outcome, things have to > work correctly on older sparc64 hardware, where the default behaviour > for on-board and Sun-branded expansion card interfaces is to use the > same MAC address. > > This hints that hostname.<interface name> should have priority over > hoshname.<MAC address> for the latter will be ambiguous on these > systems.
Don't use hostname.MAC in that case. Noone is proposing removing hostname.IF0 support. Just like noone is proposing deleting sed because awk can do the job.
