On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 10:08:01PM CET, Greg Wooledge <wool...@eeg.ccf.org> said: > On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 09:02:45PM +0000, Brian wrote: > > On Tue 13 Dec 2016 at 20:48:46 +0100, Erwan David wrote: > > > Do you think eno167778 will be more useful than eth0 to a new user ? > > > My God, why must I use eno167778, he will say? I must change > > this to something I like. connection0 looks good. > > > > And so he can. So where's the problem? > > A new user isn't even going to see it. As long as the Internet connection > works, why would they bother to look at the interface names?
So the arguments about those names being for the new users are void. That does not help them. -- Erwan