On Sat, Aug 26, 2017 at 07:02:41PM +0200, Alessandro Selli wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Aug 2017 at 17:19:48 +0200
> Didier Kryn <kryn@???> wrote:
>
> > AFAIR I fully agreed on that and then it jumped into my face that
> > the renaming wasn't necessary at all, because it is sufficient to know
> > the MAC address and ignore completely the interface name. It is just
> > enough for this to work that the tools manipulating the network
> > interfaces can be given the MAC address instead of the interface name.
> > This opens an alternative to renaming: guaranteed stable interface
> > reference, no race condition and no need for a new name space.
>
> This is not a good solution when you want networking to work just the same
> even when you replace or shuffle your networking hardware around, expecially
> with USB devices.
It seems we are approaching the paradox of the well-darned sock.
At what point are we to consider an interface to have changed?
-- hendrik
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