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On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 09:02:45PM +0000, Brian wrote:
> On Tue 13 Dec 2016 at 20:48:46 +0100, Erwan David wrote:
> > Do you think eno167778 will be more useful than eth0 to a new user ?

> My God, why must I  use eno167778, he will say? I must change
> this to something I like. connection0 looks good.
> 
> And so he can. So where's the problem?

A new user isn't even going to see it.  As long as the Internet connection
works, why would they bother to look at the interface names?