Re: Proposal: enable stateless persistant network interface names

[Josselin Mouette <joss@debian.org>]

Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk> wrote: 
        > The NM configuration is based on MAC addresses and doesn’t care about
        > the interface name at all. This is the exact opposite of “handling
        > dynamic names ungracefully”.
        
        Well, that's assuming hardware that has a permanent MAC address.  What
        does it do for virtual or cheap hardware that gets a different locally-
        assigned address at each boot or hotplug?

In most situations, the default behavior (starting a DHCP connection
when the first adapter is plugged on) is what you want. 

When you use manual configuration, the daemon’s default is to write
MAC-based configuration files, but you can change them to remove the
802-3-ethernet/mac-address setting and use connection/interface-name
instead. 

See https://developer.gnome.org/NetworkManager/unstable/ref-settings.html

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Joss