7 Aug
2023
7 Aug
'23
12:49 p.m.
On Mon, 7 Aug 2023, at 12:30, Andy Smith via BitFolk Users wrote:
I also found a Debian 9 (stretch) VM with it.
So it seems like if you did a clean install of stretch, buster or
bullseye then maybe you got that.
VM in question a bit older than that - originally Debian 5 (lenny), but stretch is the
earliest reference I've found to that particular file (see
https://lists.debian.org/debian-user/2017/07/msg01453.html). Earlier Debian releases used
a different interface naming method, so I'm guessing the 99-default.link file was
added in the 8 -> 9 dist-upgrade.
That really sucks as it's now rather difficult to
say what will
happen on an upgrade to bookworm without going in to a lot of
detail. 🙁
Agreed that it's yet another thing to trip over, but for anyone confident enough to
perform a dist-upgrade then checking for the existence of
/etc/systemd/network/99-default.link can't be too onerous. And there's this list
and the Xen console!
Cheers,
jmi