Comment 25 for bug 341006

Actually, it occurs to me that if the down-process scripts were written how I suggested above, the whole persistent-nic thing would be moot except as a convenience to us silly humans. And that's as it should be.

I guess the meat of the matter boils down to "What to you mean when you say 'eth0'?"

Interface aliases might be another way to do things but I expect that might break a lot of stuff in a lot of nasty ways.