On Fri, Jan 31, 2020 at 01:31:43PM -0500, Bob Weber wrote:
First I created /etc/systemd/network/10-eth0.link using the MAC address and the name eth0. If the MAC changes then there are other characteristics to add to the [Match] section to uniquely define the port (see above link). ------- root@debian-ZFS ~ # cat /etc/systemd/network/10-eth0.link [Match] MACAddress=52:54:00:ea:e3:53 [Link] Name=eth0
You went through more effort than you needed to. You can turn off predictable names by simply booting with net.ifnames=0 on the kernel command line (you can make that permanent by editing GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX= in /etc/default/grub and running update-grub).