5 Apr
2022
5 Apr
'22
2:12 p.m.
On Sun, Apr 03, 2022 at 05:55:12PM +0000, Andy Smith wrote:
The version of udev that will come with the next
Debian stable and
Ubuntu LTS releases has learned about Xen network interfaces and as
a result they will be subjected to "predictable network interface
naming":
https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PredictableNetworkInterfa…
That is, you won't have an eth0 any more, it will be en123abc or
whatever, based on MAC address.
Having now tested this, eth0 will actually get renamed to enX0.
Starting Raise network interfaces...
[FAILED] Failed to start Raise network interfaces.
See 'systemctl status networking.service' for details.
Debian GNU/Linux bookworm/sid debtest1 hvc0
debtest1 login: root
Password:
Linux debtest1 5.16.0-5-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT Debian 5.16.14-1 (2022-03-15) x86_64
root@debtest1:~# ip link
2: enX0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN mode DEFAULT group
default qlen 1000
link/ether 00:16:5e:00:02:39 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
So it actually is entirely predictable, if of questionable point.
Cheers,
Andy
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