On 12/19/2016 10:15 AM, lee wrote: > "Walter Dnes" <waltd...@waltdnes.org> writes: > >> Similarly, the vast majority of home users have a machine with one >> ethernet port, and in the past it's always been eth0. > > Since 10 years or so, the default is two ports.
Not in any of the computers I've built. Generally only high end or workstation/server boards have two ports. i.e. not what the typical home user would buy. > >> Now the name varies in each machine depending on the motherboard >> layout; oogabooga11? foobar42? It may be static, but you don't know >> what it'll be, without first booting the machine. In a truly >> Orwellian twist, this "feature" is referred to as "Predictable" >> Network Interface Names. It only makes things easier for corporate >> machines acting as gateways/routers, with multiple ports. Again, the >> average home user is being jerked around for a corporate agenda. > > Perhaps the hidden agenda was to make the names indistinguishable and > unrecognisable, forcing everyone to use copy and paste --- after at > least double-checking which port is which --- to eliminate human and > typing errors in order to get more predictable results. > > Otherwise, how would using unrecognisable names for network ports make > anything easier for corporate machines? > It is even more frustrating that these so-called predictable network names actually can change on a reboot, it's happened to me more than once when multiple network cards are detected in a different order. Dan
