On 2014-02-14 13:25 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:

> On Fri, 2014-02-14 at 06:59 -0500, Miles Fidelman wrote: 
>> I still cringe when I think of the first time I replaced ethernet card
>> in a server and udev changed the name
>
> During setting up Arch Linux with systemd the device name switched from
> eth0 to enp3s0 on my machine. Fortunately this was documented by the
> Arch news and/or Wikis, so it wasn't an issue for me.

On Debian this is even less an issue since the udev/systemd maintainers
haven't bought into this controversial change:

,----
| systemd (204-1) experimental; urgency=low
| [...]
|   * Keep the old persistent network interface naming scheme for now and make
|     the new one opt-in via net.ifnames=1 on the kernel command line.
| 
|  -- Michael Biebl <bi...@debian.org>  Fri, 19 Jul 2013 00:32:36 +0200
`----

> I suspect the Debian Wikis will inform about this device name change
> too.

If and when the default changes there will also be a NEWS.Debian entry
in the udev package for it (to be viewed at installation time with
apt-listchanges).

Cheers,
       Sven


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