* On 2019 25 Jun 09:00 -0500, Dan Purgert wrote: > The "problem" with them was that they apparently weren't consistent > across boots if you had multiples of the same "type" -- although I can't > remember that ever happenening, even on crazy frankenboxes that had 3 > and 4 PCI NICs in them (barring moving things around, but these > "predictable names" change too). Disclaimer, I am not nor ever have been a professional admin and I've not dealt with a computer with multiple ethernet NICs. I seem to recall that on initial installation with some prior releases that udev would write a rules file that mapped a hardware address to an interface name. I hit this a couple of times when moving a disk into another machine and found that firewall rules didn't work since the NIC was now eth1 instead of eth0. A simple edit of the rules file to comment out the eth0 stanza and renaming eth1 to eth0 and restarting networking resolved the issue, as I recall. It may have taken a system restart instead, I don't remember exactly. I'm unsure why the udev approach wasn't good enough, but here we are. On this desktop I restored the old naming convention for various reasons while the laptop has the new convention. Both work, but the predictable names are a bit of random noise to my eyes and require a moment's parsing. - Nate -- "The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears this is true." Web: https://www.n0nb.us GPG key: D55A8819 GitHub: N0NB
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