On Thursday 17 December 2020 at 13:03:57, rattenkopf via Dng wrote: > hi Antony > > Yesterday I had the same problem - mainboard network interface gets eth1 > as name and the both interfaces from the pci-card are eth0 and eth2 and > fiddling with udef-rule didn't get the wanted result.
Indeed - I'm now using my workaround of telling udev rules to assign names xeth0, xeth1 etc, and then in /etc/network/interfaces renaming those to eth0, eth1, etc. > But I notice, that as system booted from an usb stick dos not have this > problem, but the stick could only booted, if uefi was enabled. Hm, interesting. > So I decided to install grub with efi extension and after that, the > system comes up with eth0 from the mainboard and eth1 and eth2 where > given to the pci-card interfaces. > > But I don't know, if this always happens with uefi or only with that of > this board (dell PowerEdge) Well, in my case I can't test that because my machines don't do UEFI (HP N54L microservers, Bios only). Do you have any setting for net.ifnames in your Grub kernel boot parameters? Antony. -- It may not seem obvious, but (6 x 5 + 5) x 5 - 55 equals 5! Please reply to the list; please *don't* CC me. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng