On Sat, Nov 26, 2016 at 12:52:05PM +0100, Petter Reinholdtsen wrote: > Hm, looking at a test laptop running testing, it look like the output > from 'ifconfig -a' changed too much for the code I proposed to work. It > need to identify ethernet devices completely differently. ok :) > > ignore virbrX, lo and maybe other devices and then just sort > > alphabeticaly? > It is the 'maybe other devices' that bothers me. :) start with only those two and add others as we identify them? > > IOW: i'm not sure one can reliable identify machines based on the > > interfaces it has… > The idea is to have some hardware specific value that do not change > every boot. It is not the only identifier. /me nods and points at the word "reliable"… :) -- cheers, Holger
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