On 22/08/2017 at 15:36, Didier Kryn wrote:

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>     The advantage of supporting an option like "hwaddr=a0:d3:c1:9d:a5:86"
> is that the admin is free to specify interfaces by names or by MAC
> address. Of course, there is now the possibility to change the MAC address
> of an interface, but this is a case of severe hacking where the admin has
> to understand what s?he does.

I wholeheartedly agree.

Actually, changing an interface's MAC address is not at all "severe
hacking", it's as easy as running ip link set address 00:e0:4d:78:5b:5b dev
eth0, but a boot script needs not do that and anyway there are tools that
can extract the MAC address directly from the hardware.


Alessandro