On Wed, 3 Mar 2021 10:49:19 +0100 Antony Stone <antony.st...@devuan.open.source.it> wrote:
> On Wednesday 03 March 2021 at 10:40:20, Florian Zieboll via Dng wrote: > > > On Wed, 3 Mar 2021 08:04:19 +0100 > > > > tito via Dng <dng@lists.dyne.org> wrote: > > > you can set the device names by MAC addresses at boot > > > and in the past it worked as udev/eudev net-persisent-name.rules > > > (but seems to be broken, optimized out nowadays). > > > > Thanks, Tito, for the clue! I am using udev (resp. eudev) rules to > > define the NIC names by MAC addresses and had not been aware of the > > upcoming change (with buster / beowulf it is still working). > > > > For the sake of completeness and y'all's convenience, here a link > > to the related info in the Debianwiki: > > > > https://wiki.debian.org/NetworkInterfaceNames > > That was where I started 2½ months ago and found that things were > certainly more complicated than they used to be under previous > versions of De{bi,vu}an (but I did end up with a working solution). > > https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/message/20201212.131553.0a6af87d.en.html Sure, it is more error prone to work with enx"$mac" NIC names, but as it's probably too late for complaining, I just made my router "future proof": backup /etc/: $ cp -a /etc /etc.bkp cd to /etc/: $ cd /etc/ delete related custom udev rules $ rm ./udev/rules.d/7?-persistent-net-*\.rules define future NIC names as variables to avoid mistakes: $ eth0_new=`udevadm test-builtin net_id /sys/class/net/eth0 2>/dev/null | grep "ID_NET_NAME_MAC=" | sed 's/ID_NET_NAME_MAC=//'` $ eth1_new=`udevadm test-builtin net_id /sys/class/net/eth1 2>/dev/null | grep "ID_NET_NAME_MAC=" | sed 's/ID_NET_NAME_MAC=//'` test run to stdout (commented lines are excluded) $ grep -r ^[^#]*eth[0-1] ./* | sed -e "s/eth0/$eth0_new/g" -e "s/eth1/$eth1_new/g" replace NIC names "inplace" (with commented lines still excluded) $ grep -rl ^[^#]*eth[0-1] ./* | xargs -l1 sed -i -e "s/eth0/$eth0_new/g" -e "s/eth1/$eth1_new/g" reboot so far, everything seems to work fine -_- libre Grüße, Florian _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
