Hi Vince, Dixit Vincent McIntyre, le 20/03/2017 : >> +<term>ifname instead of mac address</term> ... >Not having really worked with stretch yet (ie target audience member), >I'm had no real idea what this meant when I first read it. Found in the Alpha 1 release annoucement: https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/News/2015/20150721 linking to this thread: https://lists.debian.org/debian-devel/2015/05/msg00170.html >Can you say what you mean in fuller terms that we could pare back >to something suitable for the notes? I understand it as: Network interfaces will be named using their firmware/BIOS name, or their physical location, or using a static mapping (as before). This won't depend on the discoveriong order. This won't apply for the upgrade. (I see it as the /dev/hdXY -> UUID transition) >Currently jessie systems use e.g. eth0 for the interface names. >Reading [1] it seems it is possible to use the MAC address, eg >enx78e7d1ea46da for the interface with MAC 78:e7:d1:ea:46:da. Reading it (thanks for the link), I see that mac-adress naming is available but not used. So network interfaces will have unusual name, but not as exotic as this! >IIUC your text is stating that the eth0 scheme will be default? I try to say the opposite! Baptiste [1] https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PredictableNetworkInterfaceNames/
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