Products · Pattern or everyday thing
Predictable network interface names
Raised as a usability problem by 3 people on Hacker News over 16 years (2011–2026), in 3 threads.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads this year.
No issue was raised by at least 3 people in 3 threads in the last 5 years.
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Hard to find interface names after hardware changeUnreviewed
20112026- Interface names like enpXXX are hard to predict, so users must check which name applies2026-05-12
- Hard to figure out interface names after hardware change; new names worse than ethX2020-11-06
- New interface names cause confusion and can't be manually assigned2011-02-23
Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.