On Wed, Jun 26, 2019 at 03:46:03PM +0200, Adrian Schmutzler wrote: > Hi, > > > I don't have a strong opinion, so to throw out some other ideas: > > > > We already have ethernetN. Perhaps just go with netN with net0 being > > the primary device. > > Note that vendors actually prefer WiFi devices (I have no > statistics, but I assume > 50 %) for assigning them with the sticker > MAC address. This is reasonable, as those are more exposed to the > typical user than ethernet. Sometimes ethernet and WiFi MAC > addresses are the same, however there are at least the three > following cases: > > - Sticker MAC address is uniquely assigned to a WiFi device (and all ethernet device addresses are different) > - Sticker MAC address is uniquely assigned to an ethernet device (and all WiFi addresses are different) > - Sticker MAC address is assigned both to a WiFi device and an ethernet device (in which case the choice for "primary-mac-address" would be arbitrary). > > I'm just going into detail here to illustrate that one might not want to use the term "ethernet". > For net0, net1, etc. that would then have to include both ethernet and WiFi in different order for different devices (as net0 might be ethernet or WiFi). > > Partially off-topic, but FYI: Many cheap routers typically then use > incremented addresses for the other devices despite "primary", which > might also have negative increments (e.g. eth0: sticker, eth1: > sticker+1, 2.4 GHz: sticker-1, 5 GHz: sticker-2). So it is > reasonably hard to order a mixed bunch of ethernet and WiFi devices > systematically by netX ... Old school real-OF systems used simply "net" for the main network adapter. You could re-use that here as well, I think. > > Best > > Adrian > > > > > Or primary-net-device? > > > > > > > > If a consensus is found, how would I go on with my proposition? > > > > While I'd like to start documenting alias names, just consensus here is enough. > > > > Rob -- David Gibson | I'll have my music baroque, and my code david AT gibson.dropbear.id.au | minimalist, thank you. NOT _the_ _other_ | _way_ _around_! http://www.ozlabs.org/~dgibson
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