On 2019-07-01, Greg Wooledge <wool...@eeg.ccf.org> wrote: > On Mon, Jul 01, 2019 at 07:47:35AM -0000, Curt wrote: >> Another, less serious, gotcha for those inveterate upgraders and newbies >> who don't read the release notes is that >> '/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules' is no longer a valid >> mechanism for defining device names. > > For whatever it's worth, when I upgraded this machine from stretch to > buster a couple months ago, it continued using eth0 as the interface > name without any immediately obvious issues. I did the conversion to > "predictable interface names" anyway, just in case there might be some > subtle problem that I wasn't yet seeing. > >
And you had that device name defined (as I did) in '/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules' when you upgraded?