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From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: jt@hpl.hp.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	rmk@arm.linux.org.uk, jgarzik@pobox.com
Subject: Re: The magical mystical changing ethernet interface order
Date: Thu, 8 May 2003 16:23:41 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030508162341.555a18bf.rddunlap@osdl.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1052430385.13567.17.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk>

On 08 May 2003 22:46:26 +0100 Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:

| On Iau, 2003-05-08 at 20:32, Jean Tourrilhes wrote:
| > 	My belief is that configuration scripts should be specified in
| > term of MAC address (or subset) and not in term of device name. Just
| > like the Pcmcia scripts are doing it.
| > 	And let's go the extra mile : ifconfig should accept a MAC
| > address as the argument instead of a device name. And in the long
| > term, just get rid of device name from the user view.
| 
| Current Red Hat supports naming interfaces by their mac address. That
| keeps most people happy except some sparc and embedded users who have
| one mac per host not per card (and yes that *is* allowed by the
| 802.x spec)

Yep, found it in IEEE Std 802-2001.  It's just not the recommended
method for device address assignment.

--
~Randy

  reply	other threads:[~2003-05-08 23:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-05-08 19:32 The magical mystical changing ethernet interface order Jean Tourrilhes
2003-05-08 21:43 ` Eli Carter
2003-05-08 22:19   ` Jean Tourrilhes
2003-05-08 21:46 ` Alan Cox
2003-05-08 23:23   ` Randy.Dunlap [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2003-05-10  7:42 Thomas Hood
2003-05-08 23:38 Ray Lee
2003-05-09 12:41 ` Dick Streefland
2003-05-09 14:33 ` Mr. James W. Laferriere
2003-05-07 13:14 Russell King
2003-05-07 15:18 ` Dick Streefland
2003-05-07 15:38   ` Jeff Garzik
2003-05-07 15:24 ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-05-07 17:14   ` Russell King
2003-05-07 22:04     ` Andrew Morton
2003-05-07 22:28       ` Dave Hansen
2003-05-08 12:05         ` David S. Miller
2003-05-08 14:55           ` Alan Cox
2003-05-08 14:54             ` David S. Miller
2003-05-08 16:24               ` Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo
2003-05-08 16:26               ` Jeff Garzik
2003-05-08 16:30                 ` Randy.Dunlap
2003-05-11 18:41                   ` Jeff Garzik
2003-05-08 17:56               ` Kai Germaschewski
2003-05-08 17:36           ` Linus Torvalds
2003-05-09  6:51           ` Richard Henderson

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