On Mon, 1 Apr 2013 14:12:17 +0100 Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> wrote:
> > I still don't understand what's so bad with MAC-based > > identification? I mean, uniqueness defined through MAC Address > > identity, the system name is just a label... > > MAC addresses are not human-friendly. It would be OK if you could set > up aliases, so your firewall rules could use enaabbccddeeff while you > could still type eth0. It used to be dead easy to link the MAC to the device type and number from dmesg without looking up the MAC to Manufacturer codes. A lot of useful information seems to have been removed from the linux dmesg? atleast on 3.2 kernels.
