On Mon, Dec 26, 2016 at 1:35 PM, lee <l...@yagibdah.de> wrote: > Tom H <tomh0...@gmail.com> writes: >> On Fri, Dec 23, 2016 at 9:07 PM, lee <l...@yagibdah.de> wrote: >>> >>> How is that more reliable? >> >> It's more reliable than using the kernel's names because the names >> won't change UNLESS there's kernel/driver/firmware change for that >> NIC. I doubt that these changes occur that often. Perhaps someone else >> knows. > > What happens more often: That a network card is replaced with a > different one or that the software changes?
In my experience the former. But it's just my experience... I've also not come across a kernel//driver/firmware change on a system.
