Am 29.01.2013 19:38, schrieb Matthew Garrett:
> On Tue, Jan 29, 2013 at 12:32:30PM -0600, Dan Williams wrote:
>
>> Except then you run into phones or WWAN cards that show up as Ethernet
>> devices, but aren't really Ethernet but just IP-in-8023-frames because
>> that was easier to do on Windows. That one is quite fun, and there's no
>> good way to catch them all. We're obviously behind by marking them
>> FLAG_WWAN in the kernel, which has to be done by device IDs, becasue
>> some devices use standard cdc-ether or cdc-eem and you can't reliably
>> tell them apart from some random D-Link DUB100.
>
> Sure, but that's a fundamentally unsolvable problem - if my primary
> network connection is via a USB device there's a reasonable chance that
> it'll be called usb0 anyway. The name isn't providing extra information
> here
however, as long on virtual machines with ONE network
card get a random name PLEASE leave me in peace with
this "feature" as also "biosdevname" did not provide
any benefit for such machines with 1-2 network devices
[root@rawhide ~]# ifconfig
ens160: flags=4163<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 192.168.196.18 netmask 255.255.255.0 broadcast 192.168.196.255
inet6 fe80::20c:29ff:fe85:353c prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x20<link>
ether 00:0c:29:85:35:3c txqueuelen 1000 (Ethernet)
RX packets 169 bytes 17562 (17.1 KiB)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 123 bytes 15292 (14.9 KiB)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
lo: flags=73<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING> mtu 65536
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 255.0.0.0
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 scopeid 0x10<host>
loop txqueuelen 0 (Lokale Schleife)
RX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
RX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 frame 0
TX packets 0 bytes 0 (0.0 B)
TX errors 0 dropped 0 overruns 0 carrier 0 collisions 0
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