On Tue, Apr 14, 2020 at 12:44 AM Tom Horsley <horsley1953@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 14 Apr 2020 00:26:28 +0200 Tom H wrote: > >> The improvement's when you have a multiple NICs > > Right, but they should have special cased a single NIC system > and just left the name eth0, would have avoided vast amounts > of trouble for people with common desktops that only have > a single NIC. They could have but there are at least two reasons why it wasn't really necessary. 1) It's extra code to maintain. 2) _MOST_ users with one NIC, eth0 or wlan0, or with two NICs, eth0 and wlan0, will use NetworkManager and not care about the NIC names. The connections'll be, IIRC, "Wired connection 1" or "SSID". I wish that they'd exposed non-kernel names to networking tools, like Solaris' "netX", with a correspondence to the index- and slot-based names. The names would've been stable and usable. That's how I set up my systems, even those with one NIC. _______________________________________________ users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
