Re: Proposal v2: enable stateless persistant network interface names

[Jeroen Dekkers <jeroen@dekkers.ch>]

At Wed, 3 Jun 2015 17:11:08 +0200,
Stephan Seitz wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Jun 03, 2015 at 12:01:34PM +0200, Martin Pitt wrote:
> > However, on a desktop you don't ever care about the device names, and
> 
> Of course you do. How will you use tcpdump or tshark without the
> device names? In most desktop setups a „tcpdump -i eth0” is the right
> command.

I think people who know how to use tcpdump will also be able to type
in "ip addr" to look up the device name they want to dump.


Jeroen Dekkers