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Re: Buster AMI interface names



On Fri, Oct 18, 2019 at 01:04:56AM +0200, Dick Visser wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Oct 2019 at 00:53, Noah Meyerhans <noahm@debian.org> wrote:
> > Can you explain why this causes problems for you? We want to keep device
> > renaming enabled for consistency with standard Debian installations, and
> > we aren't aware of specific problems with it that necessitate it being
> > disabled.
> 
> I'm using one of the AWS shell scripts (configure-pat.sh, which has
> eth0 hardcoded) to do PAT for private instances, and this can be used
> with many distros, but now not with Debian Buster.

IMO, it'd be mich better to fix the script to find the appropriate
interface name.  That's easy in common cases:
  IFACE=$(ip -o route show default | awk '{print $5}')

Ross


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