While not everyone will want to do this, it has a lot of potential benefits. One of them for example is that logging into a system and typing ip will inherently show more descriptive output.
The other main one though is that your system inherently becomes immune to naming drift across kernel and userspace changes.
While not everyone will want to do this, it has a lot of potential benefits. One of them for example is that logging into a system and typing
ip
will inherently show more descriptive output.The other main one though is that your system inherently becomes immune to naming drift across kernel and userspace changes.