Re: Adapter Names on Stretch
On Wed, Aug 26, 2015 at 11:58:03PM +0200, Nicolas George wrote:
> Le nonidi 9 fructidor, an CCXXIII, Renaud OLGIATI a écrit :
> > An added advantage is that on the day you replace your Ethernet NIC
> > because it was fried by lightning, and put a new one in its stead, your
> > network config will be buggered as the system will givethe new NICt
> > a name different from the one assigned to the old one, since it will have
> > a different MAC address..,
>
> Indeed, after two hours fiddling with firmwares hoping this is a software
> problem, then cables and hubs to find where the problem exactly is, then one
> hour and a half riding the subway to the other side of town where the shops
> that have discrete network cards nowadays are, and finally after you ruined
> six months uptime to shutdown and install the newly-bought card, editing a
> small config file is really the straw that broke the camel's back.
Honestly, I don't think it's that bad.
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