On 04/01/2013 09:54 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Mon, 01 Apr 2013 09:29:08 -0400, Michael Mol wrote:
>
>>> MAC addresses are not human-friendly. It would be OK if you could set
>>> up aliases, so your firewall rules could use enaabbccddeeff while you
>>> could still type eth0.
>
>> Frankly, I ne
On Mon, 01 Apr 2013 09:29:08 -0400, Michael Mol wrote:
> > MAC addresses are not human-friendly. It would be OK if you could set
> > up aliases, so your firewall rules could use enaabbccddeeff while you
> > could still type eth0.
> Frankly, I never found 'eth0' to be particularly friendly, either
On Mon, 1 Apr 2013 14:12:17 +0100
Neil Bothwick wrote:
> > I still don't understand what's so bad with MAC-based
> > identification? I mean, uniqueness defined through MAC Address
> > identity, the system name is just a label...
>
> MAC addresses are not human-friendly. It would be OK if you c
On 04/01/2013 09:12 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Apr 2013 13:57:42 +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote:
>
>> I still don't understand what's so bad with MAC-based identification? I
>> mean, uniqueness defined through MAC Address identity, the system name
>> is just a label...
>
> MAC addresses are
On Mon, 1 Apr 2013 13:57:42 +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote:
> I still don't understand what's so bad with MAC-based identification? I
> mean, uniqueness defined through MAC Address identity, the system name
> is just a label...
MAC addresses are not human-friendly. It would be OK if you could set up
a
On Apr 1, 2013 1:54 PM, "Neil Bothwick" wrote:
>
> On Sun, 31 Mar 2013 21:34:51 +0100, Kevin Chadwick wrote:
>
> > > What about USB network adaptors? A user may not even realise they
> > > plugged it into a different USB slot from last time, yet the device
> > > name changes.
> >
> > Fair point bu
On Sun, 31 Mar 2013 15:40:09 +0100, Kevin Chadwick wrote:
> I find the OpenBSD method of different names like fxp0 usefuk
You can emulate that with suitable (e)udev rules.
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On Mon, 01 Apr 2013 03:02:51 +0200, Volker Armin Hemmann wrote:
> > What about USB network adaptors? A user may not even realise they
> > plugged it into a different USB slot from last time, yet the device
> > name changes.
> congratulation, you just found another reason why today's udev sucks.
On Sun, 31 Mar 2013 21:34:51 +0100, Kevin Chadwick wrote:
> > What about USB network adaptors? A user may not even realise they
> > plugged it into a different USB slot from last time, yet the device
> > name changes.
>
> Fair point but wouldn't that be only if you plug in two of the same
> typ
Am 31.03.2013 21:55, schrieb Neil Bothwick:
> On Sun, 31 Mar 2013 15:40:09 +0100, Kevin Chadwick wrote:
>
>>> instead of pushing a completely
>>> different (and possibly less reliable) naming scheme by default.
>> Whilst I wouldn't want them changing on me (though if your physically
>> changing t
On Sun, 31 Mar 2013 20:55:00 +0100
Neil Bothwick wrote:
> What about USB network adaptors? A user may not even realise they
> plugged it into a different USB slot from last time, yet the device
> name changes.
Fair point but wouldn't that be only if you plug in two of the same
type that the name
On 03/31/2013 03:55 PM, Neil Bothwick wrote:
> On Sun, 31 Mar 2013 15:40:09 +0100, Kevin Chadwick wrote:
>
>>> instead of pushing a completely
>>> different (and possibly less reliable) naming scheme by default.
>>
>> Whilst I wouldn't want them changing on me (though if your physically
>> chang
On Sun, 31 Mar 2013 15:40:09 +0100, Kevin Chadwick wrote:
> > instead of pushing a completely
> > different (and possibly less reliable) naming scheme by default.
>
> Whilst I wouldn't want them changing on me (though if your physically
> changing the pci slot then you should be able to handle
On Sun, 31 Mar 2013 11:48:19 + (UTC)
"Nuno J. Silva (aka njsg)" wrote:
> instead of pushing a completely
> different (and possibly less reliable) naming scheme by default.
Whilst I wouldn't want them changing on me (though if your physically
changing the pci slot then you should be able to h
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