From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D8505138010 for ; Mon, 1 Apr 2013 13:15:23 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 4AC91E0E7D; Mon, 1 Apr 2013 13:12:43 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail.digimed.co.uk (82-69-83-178.dsl.in-addr.zen.co.uk [82.69.83.178]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 077EEE0E76 for ; Mon, 1 Apr 2013 13:12:41 +0000 (UTC) Received: from digimed.co.uk (shooty.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.8]) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPA id E8BB780098 for ; Mon, 1 Apr 2013 14:12:27 +0100 (BST) Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2013 14:12:17 +0100 From: Neil Bothwick To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [Bulk] [gentoo-user] Re: Udev update and persistent net rules changes Message-ID: <20130401141217.333b5db0@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: References: <515701AE.9010509@libertytrek.org> <20130331154009.73dd7363@kc-sys.chadwicks.me.uk> <20130331205500.292878cd@digimed.co.uk> <20130331213451.66cd2fe0@kc-sys.chadwicks.me.uk> <20130401075329.74634752@digimed.co.uk> Organization: Digital Media Production X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.9.0-156-gf9f793 (GTK+ 2.24.17; x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-GPG-Fingerprint: 7260 0F33 97EC 2F1E 7667 FE37 BA6E 1A97 4375 1903 Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=PGP-SHA1; boundary="Sig_/Dz5_us8bDjoxqdzsU6oQSJE"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: a05bcbf6-44a4-41a2-89f0-d4df81a6aa0c X-Archives-Hash: 17eb61ddc3bbf04384ad27986579235b --Sig_/Dz5_us8bDjoxqdzsU6oQSJE Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 1 Apr 2013 13:57:42 +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote: > I still don't understand what's so bad with MAC-based identification? I > mean, uniqueness defined through MAC Address identity, the system name > is just a label... MAC addresses are not human-friendly. It would be OK if you could set up aliases, so your firewall rules could use enaabbccddeeff while you could still type eth0. --=20 Neil Bothwick Don't just read the Tagline; read the MESSAGE! --Sig_/Dz5_us8bDjoxqdzsU6oQSJE Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlFZh7sACgkQum4al0N1GQM0JwCeLWneP5UzMJfX5UBWrp1B9kBI ZAAAn3i/YBWHLSjdSkyRyPqSHlOFoJg5 =wUnz -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/Dz5_us8bDjoxqdzsU6oQSJE--