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Re: How to avoid systemd/udev unpredictable NIC names



On Mon, Aug 30, 2021 at 11:36 PM Steve Keller <keller.steve@gmx.de> wrote:
So I'm still confused what to do after the upgrade to buster to keep
my network names.



in /etc/default/grub add 
"net.ifnames=0"
to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX
and execute "update-grub"

This service:
https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-udevd.service.html
is responsible for device creation and renaming

Here is a good overview:
https://opensource.com/article/20/2/linux-systemd-udevd

 


[1] Unfortunately, much of the Linux community and many distributions
    try to get as far away from its Unix roots as possible, away from
    the good KISS principle,

I agree:) Old good times when devices were created by makedev without any magic.

Try devuan: https://www.devuan.org/
It doesn't have systemd

 

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