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Re: firejail: changing Ethernet network adapter name is breaking Firefox profile



On Sat, 2022-01-22 at 23:53 +0100, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> On Sb, 22 ian 22, 10:00:34, tomas@tuxteam.de wrote:
> > 
> > *Poof*, your Ethernet device name changes, since, by default [1] it's
> > named after the path in the USB device tree leading to your device.
> > Don't forget to stick your Ethernet dongle into the same port
> > afterwards. Else... *poof*.
> 
> I thought USB dongles are supposed to be using the MAC based naming 
> scheme by default.

Out of curiosity, just in draw for a USB ether dongle, it looks like
the serial number is used...

[  281.313111] usb 2-9: Manufacturer: Realtek
[  281.313115] usb 2-9: SerialNumber: 0023563C4747
[  281.350604] usbcore: registered new interface driver r8152
[  281.362262] usbcore: registered new interface driver cdc_ether
[...]
[  281.533462] r8152 2-9:1.0 eth0: v1.11.11
[  281.550872] r8152 2-9:1.0 enx0023563c4747: renamed from eth0

-- 
Tixy


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