Le 20/08/2017 à 18:57, Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI a écrit :
On Sun, 20 Aug 2017 16:38:18 +0100
Rowland Penny <rpe...@samba.org> wrote:
As far as I am aware, each network device should have a different MAC,
couldn't this be used to identify which device is which ?
Could, but whenever you have to change a NIC after a thunderstorm you are
buggered...
Cheers,
Ron.
That's exactly the most frequent case. There's also the following
case: you break your computer but not the disk. Instead of making a
new install on another computer, you just exchange the disks. Your
network was configured for eth0 but there's no more eth0, udev has
renamed it eth1, because eth0 is the NIC of the broken computer.
In any case the admin must either hack /etc/network/interfaces or
the udev rules. But I think this little inconveniency is better than the
meaningless device names promoted by Systemd people.
Remains the problem of the namespace. Why not use nic0, nic1, etc
as a namespace for ethernet?
Didier
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