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Authored by glebius on Thu, Jun 25, 9:32 PM.
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Modern Linuxes don't use ethX for almost 15 years already, see [1] and
[2]. The translation logic has always been a source of bugs and PITA.
Switch default to not translate (long due!) and schedule removal of the
code for FreeBSD 17.

[1] https://systemd.io/PREDICTABLE_INTERFACE_NAMES/
[2] https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/latest/systemd.net-naming-scheme.html

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linux(4): use_real_ifnames: conversion of native interface names to ethN is not needed to emulate modern Linux. See https://systemd.io/PREDICTABLE_INTERFACE_NAMES. To be removed in FreeBSD 17
This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Tue, Jul 7, 4:49 PM