nixCraft 🐧
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Who misses the old Linux Ethernet names? Remember when your network interfaces were just eth0 and eth1? Now we have long names like enp0s25. Let's see where you stand.
Dave Pimlott@quikkie@infosec.exchange
@nixCraft@mastodon.social I'm a multi-decade user of Unix, BSD, and Linux which means I'm nostalgic for ethX naming, but at the same time I understand the need for deterministic naming of interfaces (Checkpoint firewall admins know /exactly/ what I'm talking about - there's a kb that talks you through pinning this MAC to that interface name).
So I'm conflicted. I prefer the old naming standard, but appreciate the new way means that interfaces don't "move around".
Not a fan of Linux distributions getting rid of ifconfig/arp/netstat though.