On Thu, Apr 14, 2016 at 4:50 AM, Martin Pitt <[email protected]> wrote:
> Martin Pitt [2016-04-06 12:56 +0200]: > > * MAC based (status quo): Emphasize the identity of the device that > > you connect > > + Works well on PCs/laptops where you want to connect your phone or > > USB 3G stick on an arbitrary USB slot. > > > > - With boards like the RasPi you usually think in terms of > > location: The left port is for the external USB ethernet card, > > the right port for something else. > > > > - You can't just take a pre-configured image and install it on a > > bunch of RasPis, as the configuration depends on the particular > > USB ethernet dongle that you plug in, so the names will be > > different on every deployed device, you can't keep a r/o > > image, and you need to adjust the configuration everywhere. > > For the record, forgot some minuses here: > > - Long and ugly names > My preference would be to nix the long-ugly-mac-based names. Location based would certainly be simpler to use in cli than the MAC ones ifconfig enx000acd264533 doesn't really type out that cleaning very often. I think we should do something like what Steve suggested w.r.t providing some sort of persistent mapping via rules or config outside of the eth* namespace.
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