On Thu, Mar 14, 2013 at 02:10:40PM +0000, Christian Weisgerber wrote: > Peter N. M. Hansteen <pe...@bsdly.net> wrote: > > > Me neither. For most use cases I can think of, interface groups (a feature > > we > > do have, see ifconfig(8) and possibly other references elsewhere) will give > > you what others have implemented interface renaming for. > > There are also interface descriptions.
I'm aware of both. So what is this renaming of ifaces good for? Like /etc/mactab in Linux... I've thought I have usage for this but then I discovered I did bad testing and reorder of nics was my issue in RHEVM/kvm world. So what is this good for in other OS? jirib
