On 2024-05-21, Dale <rdalek1...@gmail.com> wrote: >> Here's my udev rules file that defines my network interface names >> for the machine I'm on at the moment: >> >> ------------------/etc/udev/rules.d/70-my-persistent-net.rules----------------------- >> SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", ATTR{address}=="2c:f0:5d:6f:10:af", >> NAME="net0" >> SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", ATTR{address}=="00:1b:21:b1:d1:e9", >> NAME="net1" >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Examples do help a lot. I do use the enp* naming scheme. My > understanding, that is the "new" way.
The suffix for those enp* names comes from the PCI bus subsystem based on bus number, slot number, etc. [Yes, slot number apparently does change based on what PCIe cards are present. No, that doesn't make sense to me either] > Based on your config, I would need to change the NAME= to enp* names > and that would correct that. I suppose you could, but I would not use enp* names. Those could conflict with the autogenerated names. > Where you have ATTR, is that a quote or did you edit to remove a > number, MAC address, IP or something? What I posted is exactly what's in the file (without the ----------- delimiters). Here's more documentation: https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Udev https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/udev https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/Network_configuration#Change_interface_name [The arch Wiki is always a good fallback if the Gentoo manual/Wiki don't have what you're looking for.] > If it is one of those, where do I find that info? I checked > ifconfig and didn't see a MAC address. I also checked lspci -v. > I'm not sure where you get the needed info from. BTW, right now, > I'm on my main rig. The only thing you need to change from my example would be the mac address(es) (e.g. 2c:f0:5d:6f:10:af) and the names (e.g. net0). > I have the package net-misc/networkmanager installed. Most likely > pulled in by something else. Could I use it to configure this? Possibly, I don't use networkmanager and don't know how it works on Gentoo. I use the default Gentoo netifrc scheme https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Netifrc. > I also have KDE installed on the NAS box, it is also a backup rig in > case my main rig dies. It may have a GUI that I could use. I'm not > opposed to the command line way tho. Biggest thing, copy and paste > would be nice. I don't know much of anything about KDE. -- Grant