On Thu, Jun 25, 2015 at 08:16:12AM -0400, Marvin Renich wrote: > Think about it. Any program can deal with any name or naming > convention. It doesn't matter whether the name is obfuscated or not. A > human sysadmin, however, has a much easier time using eth2 than > enx3c52ca. Binary ids are for programs; short, easy-to-use names are > for humans.
While I agree that including the complete hex ID of a network interface isn't very user friendly, I also can't extract any value out of "eth2" or "em1" if there is more than one interface and (especially) more than one machine. So I usually resort to the MAC address in "ip link". In which case not including part of the identifier makes for an additional roundtrip. On the other hand I'm more of a fan of actually naming interfaces by their purpose or external labeling. Makes for even less mental gymnastics. \-: Kind regards Philipp Kern
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