Re: Question to new network device names

[Greg Wooledge <wooledg@eeg.ccf.org>]

On Thu, Aug 24, 2017 at 11:51:48AM -0500, David Wright wrote:
> For you, they wrote the last screenful of
> https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PredictableNetworkInterfaceNames/

One of the bullet points on that page says:

 * Stable interface names even if you have to replace broken ethernet
   cards by new ones

But this is clearly an error, unless they meant "replace with a new
one of exactly the same type as the old one", which is absolutely not a
common practice.  You may not even be able to *find* another instance of
the old one, because the manufacturer has silently changed the internal
chipset whithout changing the model number on the box.  So you end up
replacing your interface with a different kind, and voila!  Your
interface name changes.

Of course debian-user is not the place to get errors on the freedesktop
page corrected, but the author of that page is clearly not playing by
the same rules as the rest of us.