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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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