Re: How to avoid systemd/udev unpredictable NIC names
On Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 01:32:32PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> Another completely different approach is to use some other tool to
> configure your network that can match on MAC address and just ignore the
> names completely.
>
> For systemd-networkd
>
> /etc/systemd/network/my.network
>
> [Match]
> MACAddress=ab:cd:ef:12:34:56
>
> [Network]
> Address=192.168.1.123/24
> Gateway=192.168.1.1
> DNS=192.168.1.1
This still leaves you with an unpredictable interface name. If you
have to use that interface name in some other part of your configuration
(e.g. a firewall) then this isn't ideal.
If you don't care about the names at all, then this may be feasible.
It's good to have options, though.
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