On Fri, 5 Mar 2021 18:56:25 +0000
Simon Hobson <linux@???> wrote:

> Florian Zieboll via Dng <dng@???> wrote:
>
> > For the sake of completeness and y'all's convenience, here a link
> > to the related info in the Debianwiki:
> >
> > https://wiki.debian.org/NetworkInterfaceNames
>
> Did anyone else read that and think it could be summarised along the
> lines of : "We thought X was badly broken, so we developed Y which
> will require you to reconfigure lots of stuff - but even we have to
> admit that Y is actually more broken and here's the complicated ways
> to get sane behaviour"
>
> Simon
>

I wonder why instead of predictable names they didn't choose
prefix+mac_address at least for initial setup of names and leave it
to user to name the interfaces they way he likes. This would have
guaranteed (almost) unique persistent names and by using standard
prefixes would have identified easily the class of network device.

Ciao,
Tito