Comment 10 for bug 1541678

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Brian Candler (b-candler) wrote :

Caught by this too. I get enp3s0, and have set net.ifnames=0 as a workaround.

I agree with the suggestion that the script should be simplified to match XXXX.N, where X is any alphanumeric. More conservatively: the first X could match a-z only, and the last X could match 0-9 only.

Question is, was there a reason for originally matching only specific patterns like ethM.N, wlanM.N etc? Was it to exclude certain other valid interface names which contain a dot but are not VLAN capable? Or perhaps it was just being overly cautious?