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I imagine they went against mac address because it is not immutable, some folks rotate mac addresses for privacy/security reasons.
by woleium 1y ago
I imagine they went against mac address because it is not immutable, some folks rotate mac addresses for privacy/security reasons.
- em-bee 1y agoi thought about that, but couldn't you access the hardcoded address to identify the card? but you also want to be able to change a card in a server without the device name changing. at least that used to be an issue in the past.
- tlamponi 1y agoThe original one is still there. Systemd knows even about that, it's differentiated as MAC vs PermanentMAC.
- duskwuff 1y agoThere are, unfortunately, some older devices (like some Sun systems) which use the same MAC address for every network interface on the device.