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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 01/23/2013 09:08 PM, John Reiser
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<pre wrap="">On 01/23/2013 12:26 PM, Matthew Miller wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Also, I strongly question this line in the Feature page:
"Users generally won't see this, as interface names are not exposed in
high-level UIs."
This is simply not true for many values of the word "user"
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I agree with Matthew that ordinary users do see and use the interface names.
The most common usage on my network is "ifconfig -a" to answer the question,
"What is (are) my IP address(es) today?" Propagation of changes to DNS
(multiple competing connections available) takes too long and is unreliable.
I further agree that the recent name changes due to biosdevname should be the
last for a very long time. That is, anything which might replace biosdevname
must produce the same answers as biosdevname.
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You do know that biosdevname only works for some hw right? You do
realise that this will bring a long history of failures to an end
and we finally have something that can work out in a reliable and
predictable manner right ?<br>
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Yes majority of desktop users wont notices this heck they dont even
know what ethX or emX is.<br>
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I for one have had enough of fighting, dealing with the previous
mess @dayjob and this actually fixes that and for those admins that
want the old ( broken ) behaviour back "ln -s /dev/null
/etc/udev/rules.d/80-net-name-slot.rules" is all you need.<br>
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If people want to try this now on F18 they simply can checkout/copy
that udev rule /etc/udev/ directory. <span class="bz_comment_user"><span
class="vcard redhat_user"><a class="email"
href="mailto:mschmidt@redhat.com" title="Michal Schmidt
<mschmidt@redhat.com>"><span class="fn"></span></a><br>
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JBG<br>
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