"Walter Dnes" <waltd...@waltdnes.org> writes: > Similarly, the vast majority of home users have a machine with one > ethernet port, and in the past it's always been eth0.
Since 10 years or so, the default is two ports. > Now the name varies in each machine depending on the motherboard > layout; oogabooga11? foobar42? It may be static, but you don't know > what it'll be, without first booting the machine. In a truly > Orwellian twist, this "feature" is referred to as "Predictable" > Network Interface Names. It only makes things easier for corporate > machines acting as gateways/routers, with multiple ports. Again, the > average home user is being jerked around for a corporate agenda. Perhaps the hidden agenda was to make the names indistinguishable and unrecognisable, forcing everyone to use copy and paste --- after at least double-checking which port is which --- to eliminate human and typing errors in order to get more predictable results. Otherwise, how would using unrecognisable names for network ports make anything easier for corporate machines?
