Re: Need current Debian _specific_ HOWTO for vnstat

[Eben King <eben@gmx.us>]

On 10/16/25 11:11, Richard Owlett wrote:

> All the instructions I've seen depend on device naming conventions that 
> Debian has not used since Stretch.
> [ See https://wiki.debian.org/NetworkConfiguration which says:
>    > Since Stretch, old-style interface names (eth0, wlan1 etc.) have
>    > been replaced by names based on hardware location (enp0s31f6,
>    > wlp1s7 etc.). For USB dongles, these can even include the MAC
>    > address: enx2c56ac39ec0d).
> ]

eben@cerberus:~$ cat /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules
SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", 
ATTR{address}=="00:1b:21:b6:8a:84", ATTR{dev_id}=="0x0", 
ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*", NAME="eth0"