Path: csiph.com!aioe.org!bofh.it!news.nic.it!robomod
From: Michael Stone <mstone@debian.org>
Newsgroups: linux.debian.user
Subject: Re: New nomeclature of ethernet devices
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2019 15:40:01 +0200
Message-ID: <ycTPX-RV-3@gated-at.bofh.it>
References: <ycOGB-6l5-3@gated-at.bofh.it> <ycPjk-6y7-13@gated-at.bofh.it> <ycPCG-6Uc-5@gated-at.bofh.it> <ycSAx-cU-3@gated-at.bofh.it> <ycT3z-mb-1@gated-at.bofh.it> <ycTmV-I6-3@gated-at.bofh.it>
X-Mailbox-Line: From debian-user-request@lists.debian.org  Tue Jun 25 13:31:17 2019
Old-Return-Path: <mstone@debian.org>
X-Amavis-Spam-Status: No, score=-9.3 tagged_above=-10000 required=5.3 tests=[BAYES_00=-2, LDO_WHITELIST=-5, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_MED=-2.3] autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no
X-Policyd-Weight: using cached result; rate: -3.5
Mail-Followup-To: debian-user@lists.debian.org
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed
Content-Disposition: inline
X-PGP-Fingerprint: 02D5 315F F11F 1861 860E  1E02 F61A ACDC FA11 FFDE
User-Agent: NeoMutt/20170113 (1.7.2)
X-Mailing-List: <debian-user@lists.debian.org> archive/latest/750447
List-ID: <debian-user.lists.debian.org>
List-URL: <https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/>
List-Archive: https://lists.debian.org/msgid-search/324cb9de-974d-11e9-9b6a-00163eeb5320@msgid.mathom.us
Approved: robomod@news.nic.it
Lines: 8
Organization: linux.* mail to news gateway
Sender: robomod@news.nic.it
X-Original-Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2019 09:30:59 -0400
X-Original-Message-ID: <324cb9de-974d-11e9-9b6a-00163eeb5320@msgid.mathom.us>
X-Original-References: <3075271.Qm81CeSCBq@protheus2> <20190625084938.GB955@tuxteam.de> <3560308.VKTL9hsXrM@protheus2> <915df188-9741-11e9-9b6a-00163eeb5320@msgid.mathom.us> <5D1217A4.4080603@fastmail.fm> <20190625130530.GF2450@eeg.ccf.org>
Xref: csiph.com linux.debian.user:210374

On Tue, Jun 25, 2019 at 09:05:30AM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
>Debian's defaults are a bit baffling sometimes.  They assumed a mobile
>device when they decided to put "allow-hotplug" on your wired ethernet
>interfaces, which breaks everything under the sun on traditional
>servers or workstations in a work environment.

How? If the interface is in the system then allow-hotplug and auto are 
synonyms. I have not observed the breakage in hundreds of servers.