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On 12/19/2016 10:15 AM, lee wrote: |
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> "Walter Dnes" <waltdnes@××××××××.org> writes: |
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>> Similarly, the vast majority of home users have a machine with one |
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>> ethernet port, and in the past it's always been eth0. |
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> Since 10 years or so, the default is two ports. |
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Not in any of the computers I've built. Generally only high end or |
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workstation/server boards have two ports. |
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i.e. not what the typical home user would buy. |
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>> Now the name varies in each machine depending on the motherboard |
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>> layout; oogabooga11? foobar42? It may be static, but you don't know |
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>> what it'll be, without first booting the machine. In a truly |
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>> Orwellian twist, this "feature" is referred to as "Predictable" |
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>> Network Interface Names. It only makes things easier for corporate |
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>> machines acting as gateways/routers, with multiple ports. Again, the |
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>> average home user is being jerked around for a corporate agenda. |
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> Perhaps the hidden agenda was to make the names indistinguishable and |
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> unrecognisable, forcing everyone to use copy and paste --- after at |
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> least double-checking which port is which --- to eliminate human and |
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> typing errors in order to get more predictable results. |
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> Otherwise, how would using unrecognisable names for network ports make |
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> anything easier for corporate machines? |
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It is even more frustrating that these so-called predictable network |
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names actually can change on a reboot, it's happened to me more than |
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once when multiple network cards are detected in a different order. |
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Dan |