On 2017-08-24 at 09:30, Dave Sherohman wrote: > On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 09:17:00AM -0400, The Wanderer wrote: > >> However, I'll point out that machines with this many network >> interfaces are *by far* the exception rather than the rule; indeed, >> even machines with more than *one* interface each of wired and >> wireless are reasonably rare. > > In the home desktop space, perhaps. When you deal with rackmount > servers, OTOH, four (wired) network ports is pretty standard these > days. The computers I'm considering as what Carroll called the "universe of discourse" here are "all computers on which this naming scheme is being used". Whether they are servers or home desktops or business desktops or smartphones or wireless access points or televisions or coffeepots or anything else is irrelevant. (Although of course several of those are unlikely to have anyone looking at the interface names directly in the first place, so they may also be irrelevant to the discussion.) > Of course, they're all on the same bus and using identical hardware/ > firmware, so the "order might change based on which drivers load > first" case still doesn't apply. That's a detail I don't think I knew about. -- The Wanderer The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. -- George Bernard Shaw
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