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On 01/23/2013 09:08 PM, John Reiser
wrote:
On 01/23/2013 12:26 PM, Matthew Miller wrote:
Also, I strongly question this line in the Feature page:
"Users generally won't see this, as interface names are not exposed in
high-level UIs."
This is simply not true for many values of the word "user"
I agree with Matthew that ordinary users do see and use the interface names.
The most common usage on my network is "ifconfig -a" to answer the question,
"What is (are) my IP address(es) today?" Propagation of changes to DNS
(multiple competing connections available) takes too long and is unreliable.
I further agree that the recent name changes due to biosdevname should be the
last for a very long time. That is, anything which might replace biosdevname
must produce the same answers as biosdevname.
You do know that biosdevname only works for some hw right? You do
realise that this will bring a long history of failures to an end
and we finally have something that can work out in a reliable and
predictable manner right ?
Yes majority of desktop users wont notices this heck they dont even
know what ethX or emX is.
I for one have had enough of fighting, dealing with the previous
mess @dayjob and this actually fixes that and for those admins that
want the old ( broken ) behaviour back "ln -s /dev/null
/etc/udev/rules.d/80-net-name-slot.rules" is all you need.
If people want to try this now on F18 they simply can checkout/copy
that udev rule /etc/udev/ directory.
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