On Wed, Jun 12, 2024 at 10:33 AM Richard <rrosn...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Question is, does it make that much sense to report it to Debian directly? > Are you encountering this issue on Debian itself or > Armbian/Raspbian/whatever? You reported this to the Raspberry Pi GitHub, so > I'd expect them to take this up with the upstream devs themselves, so by the > time Trixie is being released, it may already be included. > > But besides that, what you describe in the first link sounds to me not like a > bug, but as a well thought-through decision. Network adapter names like eth0 > have been dropped with Debian 11 (I think, maybe even 10). So don't get your > hopes up too high to ever see this coming back. But also, just searching the > web for this topic, you should have come across this answering your > questions: https://wiki.debian.org/NetworkInterfaceNames
The random MAC address discussed in the bug report (with mention of Network Manager) could be <https://blogs.gnome.org/thaller/2016/08/26/mac-address-spoofing-in-networkmanager-1-4-0/>. Jeff