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On 2025-12-31 at 17:50 AST, The Natural Philosopher 
wrote:
> On 31/12/2025 20:00, Jim Diamond wrote:
>> Given that this mystery IP didn't show up the next time I rebooted (or
>> again just now (to test)), I consider that unlikely.  And grepping through
>> /etc I don't see any unexpected instances of either (a) the mystery IP, or
>> (b) the string "wlan".  Not that this is an exhaustive hunt.
>
> Linux has had a fit about the naming of interfaces. wlan seems deprecated.

I don't think "Linux" has had a fit about naming of interfaces.  All of my
machines (RPi and otherwise) have "wlan0".  But I have seen more exotic
names on some distros.

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