Re: P.S. Re: Debian 9 in a VM with Proxmox 5 system
On Wed, Jul 12, 2017 at 2:40 PM, Roger Lynn <Roger@rilynn.me.uk> wrote:
> On 10/07/17 19:40, Marvin Renich wrote:
>>
>> There is an easy fix to revert the default behavior while still allowing
>> knowledgeable sysadmins to get the new behavior. On the other hand,
>> those who need to administer systems but are not sysadmins by trade (and
>> thus will have to do significantly more research to even know that the
>> older behavior is possible) are the ones who need the older behavior as
>> the default.
>
> This caught me out on a recent new installation, which gave me these new
> names which are too complicated to be usable. I wasted hours working out
> what had happened, how to fix it and how to write a udev rules file from
> scratch. And having just read this thread, I've discovered that the rules
> I've written are themselves apparently unreliable, for example:
> SUBSYSTEM=="net", ATTR{address}=="1c:1b:0d:9a:34:98", NAME="eth0"
> SUBSYSTEM=="net", ATTR{address}=="1c:1b:0d:9a:34:9a", NAME="eth1"
It's simpler to use (for example)
# cat /etc/systemd/network/77-en0.link
[Match]
MACAddress=1c:1b:0d:9a:34:98
[Link]
Name=en0
# cat /etc/systemd/network/77-en1.link
[Match]
MACAddress=1c:1b:0d:9a:34:9a
[Link]
Name=en1
This rule works even if you use sysvinit as pid 1.
Renaming NICs within the kernel's "eth*" namespace is discouraged upstream.
Suppose that the kernel names "1c:1b:0d:9a:34:9a" "eth0" and
"1c:1b:0d:9a:34:98" "eth1". You'll have a renaming clash when udev
tries to apply your rules.
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