On Feb 15, Josh Triplett <j...@joshtriplett.org> wrote:

> to achieve the same effect.  However, it seems worth documenting this in
> the "Network Interfaces" section of README.Debian as the suggested
> approach to avoid the renaming.  Suggested text:
Fair enough, I will add something.

> I think that would help; however, I also wonder if some approach might
> exist to figure out when renaming will do more harm than good, to handle
> this more automatically.
Many smart people considered this issue multiple times but did not find
any good solution. While a breakthrough is obviously possibile, I am not
optimistic.

> Does any means exist to give an interface multiple names and have them
> all work?
No. If you really want to know why implementing this would not really be
such a great idea you can find a long thread about it in the
linux-hotplug list archive of about six months ago.

-- 
ciao,
Marco

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