On Wed, 2 Sep 2015 10:05:11 +0100
Simon Hobson <linux@???> wrote:

> > I am pretty sure there are very few cases where a wifi connection needs a static IP config. For the vast majority of cases, the config is dynamic and one single id_str is enough for all; doing otherwise would bloat the interfaces file for the sole sake of this description.

> That makes sense - provided that it's still possible to manually add entries which fall into that other 1%.

I hope so, since my home LAN is all fixed IP addresses. ;-3)

Cheers,

Ron.
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