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What is the reasonable for not use the mac as the identifier? Trying to think of a use case I thought of wireless + wired, would be kind of neat if they had th
by tjoff 4y ago
What is the reasonable for not use the mac as the identifier?
Trying to think of a use case I thought of wireless + wired, would be kind of neat if they had the same IP. But that falls apart completely if you have them connected at the same time (which I often do).
- linsomniac 4y agoAt one point I set up my wired and wireless interfaces as a bond with wired as the primary, and I could do a file transfer and watch the speed go up or down as I plugged and unplugged the wired interface. That was pretty slick.
- josteink 4y agoThat sounds cool. Did you document it anywhere for others to setup themselves? We’re there any obvious issues in such a setup?
- linsomniac 4y agoI did, but that blog was taken offline the beginning of this year when the company I was a part of when I wrote it went out off business. It was horribly out of pace with modern setups though, I did that ~20 years ago, it used a network manager that no longer exists. I'm not sure how it'd fit into a Network Manager or systemd world. There really wasn't any particular trick to it, IIRC I used link monitoring to detect link failure, though I might have used ARP, and set the ethernet as the primary interface, just using the standard Linux bond driver.
- justinsaccount 4y agoWith things like docking stations/usb-c docks/other adapters, the actual mac address doesn't necessarily identify a machine.
- tjoff 4y agoAs my example illustrates, that is a feature.