GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 683102
optionally select interface by name or type (instead of by mac address)
Last modified: 2013-09-30 09:34:35 UTC
Currently, connections can only match interfaces by MAC addresses, not names. This is fine in most cases and this is fine for the GUI tools but sometimes, it is better to select interfaces either by name or by type. This requires [connection] to be extended to support: 'match-name', 'match-interface-name' or 'interface-name' or whatever 'match-type', 'match-interface-type' or 'interface-type' or whatever I'm slightly inclined to also rename 'mac-address' to something that obviously means matching and not setting. And also to rename 'cloned-mac-address' to something valid (as we're not cloning MAC addresses but setting them, cloning actually means using another device's MAC address learned through another interface). Free to discuss.
Current status?
renaming things is for bug 680675 You can now specify connection.interface-name, and that will match on interface name. By interface type do you mean like "ethernet" or "wifi"? In general, each connection type can only match one kind of hardware, so I'm not sure what you'd use that for... So, I think this is FIXED
(In reply to comment #2) > renaming things is for bug 680675 I have no specific request for that. > You can now specify connection.interface-name, and that will match on interface > name. +1 > By interface type do you mean like "ethernet" or "wifi"? In general, each > connection type can only match one kind of hardware, so I'm not sure what you'd > use that for... Sounds good. > So, I think this is FIXED Thanks. I see you created a duplicate for this bug... *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 693684 ***