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 DBBF1138010 for ; Mon, 1 Apr 2013 13:55:16 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 7C492E0FC6; Mon, 1 Apr 2013 13:55:03 +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 18A95E0F8D for ; Mon, 1 Apr 2013 13:55:01 +0000 (UTC) Received: from digimed.co.uk (shooty.digimed.co.uk [192.168.1.8]) by mail.digimed.co.uk (Postfix) with ESMTPA id 4054B80098 for ; Mon, 1 Apr 2013 14:54:55 +0100 (BST) Date: Mon, 1 Apr 2013 14:54:49 +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: <20130401145449.29b3df59@digimed.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <51598BA4.90503@gmail.com> 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> <20130401141217.333b5db0@digimed.co.uk> <51598BA4.90503@gmail.com> 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_/P.7rsZ5.ZetxnfTmbEdWP2S"; protocol="application/pgp-signature" X-Archives-Salt: 068bb2ff-d458-47e3-a125-749fc556bd37 X-Archives-Hash: 5a46bb7df55c07cab8f582220338096c --Sig_/P.7rsZ5.ZetxnfTmbEdWP2S Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Mon, 01 Apr 2013 09:29:08 -0400, Michael Mol wrote: > > 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. > Frankly, I never found 'eth0' to be particularly friendly, either. Hence > why I like naming my interfaces things like 'wan', 'wifilan' and > 'wiredlan'. Relative to 'lan' or 'wan', no, but relative to an embedded MAC address? --=20 Neil Bothwick I don't know if I can assimilate one more Borg Tagline! --Sig_/P.7rsZ5.ZetxnfTmbEdWP2S Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name=signature.asc Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=signature.asc -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) iEYEARECAAYFAlFZka0ACgkQum4al0N1GQMglACgybcs8Y3uzdzNTCBeU9RvTEW7 YjAAmgM4gj30wKPD8K5Mctir//dWh7f7 =3woU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --Sig_/P.7rsZ5.ZetxnfTmbEdWP2S--