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From: Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [Bulk] [gentoo-user] Re: Udev update and persistent net rules changes
Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2013 13:55:16
Message-Id: 20130401145449.29b3df59@digimed.co.uk
In Reply to: Re: [Bulk] [gentoo-user] Re: Udev update and persistent net rules changes by Michael Mol
1 On Mon, 01 Apr 2013 09:29:08 -0400, Michael Mol wrote:
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3 > > MAC addresses are not human-friendly. It would be OK if you could set
4 > > up aliases, so your firewall rules could use enaabbccddeeff while you
5 > > could still type eth0.
6
7 > Frankly, I never found 'eth0' to be particularly friendly, either. Hence
8 > why I like naming my interfaces things like 'wan', 'wifilan' and
9 > 'wiredlan'.
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11 Relative to 'lan' or 'wan', no, but relative to an embedded MAC address?
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15 Neil Bothwick
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17 I don't know if I can assimilate one more Borg Tagline!

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