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On Thu, 01 Jan 2026 17:54:34 +0000, Richard Kettlewell wrote:

> IMHO they should have taken a lesson from filesystem naming, and
> allowed interfaces to be identified by their attributes, rather than
> depending on a unique name.

What attributes would you use?

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