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Daniel Frey <djqfrey@×××××.com> writes: |
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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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It is not reasonable to assume that a "typical home user" would want a |
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computer with a crappy board to run Linux on it (or for anything |
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else). If they are that cheap, they're better off buying a used one. |
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When they are sufficiently clueless to want something like that, what |
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does it matter what the network interfaces are called. |
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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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I haven't had that happen with the unrecognisable names. Aren't they |
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supposed to prevent things like that? |
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