Re: Need current Debian _specific_ HOWTO for vnstat

[Richard Owlett <rowlett@access.net>]

On 11/12/25 9:44 PM, Eben King wrote:
> 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 been replaced by names based on hardware location (enp0s31f6,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"

Thank you for trying.
I'm still very much a newbie ;/
I think I have an idea of what's intended.

The man-pages for cat and udev did not prompt fruitful questions.
What introductory material should I search for?
TIA