Ben Hutchings <[email protected]> wrote: > The NM configuration is based on MAC addresses and doesn’t care about > the interface name at all. This is the exact opposite of “handling > dynamic names ungracefully”. Well, that's assuming hardware that has a permanent MAC address. What does it do for virtual or cheap hardware that gets a different locally- assigned address at each boot or hotplug?
In most situations, the default behavior (starting a DHCP connection when the first adapter is plugged on) is what you want. When you use manual configuration, the daemon’s default is to write MAC-based configuration files, but you can change them to remove the 802-3-ethernet/mac-address setting and use connection/interface-name instead. See https://developer.gnome.org/NetworkManager/unstable/ref-settings.html -- Joss -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
