>>The one thing I can't understand is why we still don't have "network
>>interface aliases" (equivalent to symlinks), so that systemd can name my
>>interface enp2s0 *and* eth0 instead of having to choose between those
>>two, just like it has no problem naming my SSD /dev/sda and
>>/dev/disk/by-id/ata-FOOBAR (and a bunch of other names as well).
>
> Because a decision was made decades ago not to access network interfaces via
> /dev and changing that now would break a lot.
I wasn't suggesting to move network interfaces into the file-system
(e.g. via device files), but only to add a new feature to create
"network interface aliases".
Stefan
