I too have never figured out what was gained by going to "predictable names" as far as I am concerned it is the definition of oxymoron. I always knew what eth0 or eth1 or whatever the original names were, these things though on a given machine will USUALLY come up the same but they change from machine to machine. I have 3 machines here and all 3 of them have different names for eth0....
As they say in Costa Rica "predictable names" turas... On Sat, Feb 13, 2021 at 8:33 PM Russell Senior <russ...@personaltelco.net> wrote: > > https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PredictableNetworkInterfaceNames/ > > Given the plenitude of schemes (!) that are supported, this system > deserves the word "predictable" about as much as USB deserves the word > "universal". > > On Sat, Feb 13, 2021 at 6:28 PM Russell Senior > <russ...@personaltelco.net> wrote: > > > > > There are ways to rename the interface back to eth0, but > > > I assume this breaks other things, > > > > It doesn't break anything. I routinely turn off the silly "predictable" > names. > > > > I use the technique of adding: > > > > GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="net.ifnames=0" > > > > to my /etc/default/grub file, and after running: > > > > sudo update-grub2 (or equivalent) you are good for the long haul. > _______________________________________________ > PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > -- Chuck Hast -- KP4DJT -- I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me. Ph 4:13 KJV Todo lo puedo en Cristo que me fortalece. Fil 4:13 RVR1960 _______________________________________________ PLUG: https://pdxlinux.org PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug