Re: [lwip-devel] netifapi limitations

[Sylvain Rochet]

Hi Joel,

On Mon, Mar 19, 2018 at 05:07:20PM -0500, Joel Cunningham wrote:
> 
> I need to spin up more on naming under Linux, but I've seen kernel features
> for different kinds of names depending on the driver, i.e. predictable vs
> unpredictable naming. At least on my Ubuntu 17.10 box, it's renaming the
> devices to have long numbers, appears to be based off MAC:
> 
> $ ifconfig -a
> 
> wlx6466b31999f5: flags=4099<UP,BROADCAST,MULTICAST>  mtu 1500

Actually it isn't a kernel feature, this is systemd predictable network 
interface names feature. Having that is very welcome for network 
configurators.

https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PredictableNetworkInterfaceNames/

Sylvain

signature.asc
Description: Digital signature