On 01/23/2013 12:26 PM, Matthew Miller wrote:
Also, I strongly question this line in the Feature page:
"Users generally won't see this, as interface names are not exposed in
high-level UIs."
This is simply not true for many values of the word "user"
I agree with Matthew that ordinary users do see and use the interface names.
The most common usage on my network is "ifconfig -a" to answer the question,
"What is (are) my IP address(es) today?" Propagation of changes to DNS
(multiple competing connections available) takes too long and is unreliable.
I further agree that the recent name changes due to biosdevname should be the
last for a very long time. That is, anything which might replace biosdevname
must produce the same answers as biosdevname.