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On Mon, 1 Apr 2013 14:12:17 +0100 |
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Neil Bothwick <neil@××××××××××.uk> wrote: |
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> > I still don't understand what's so bad with MAC-based |
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> > identification? I mean, uniqueness defined through MAC Address |
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> > identity, the system name is just a label... |
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> MAC addresses are not human-friendly. It would be OK if you could set |
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> up aliases, so your firewall rules could use enaabbccddeeff while you |
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> could still type eth0. |
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It used to be dead easy to link the MAC to the device type and number |
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from dmesg without looking up the MAC to Manufacturer codes. A lot of |
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useful information seems to have been removed from the linux dmesg? |
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atleast on 3.2 kernels. |
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