Andy
Great, thanks, I assumed it was something like that. On my systems at home there was a change on the one I did a complete fresh install with, but the new name was simple enough.
Tomorrow will be the big upgrade day for my 2 VPS

On Sat, 6 Jul 2019 at 19:10, Andy Smith <andy@bitfolk.com> wrote:
Hi Keith,

On Sat, Jul 06, 2019 at 12:38:22PM +0100, Keith Williams wrote:
> This is of course too unwieldy to actually use so I followed through the
> instructions for changing it to say eth0 to save editing all the /etc files
> which explicitly name the interface.
> None of the files seem to exist. Is this because it is all under the
> control of Xen rather than the virtual machine? i.e. can I stop worrying?

On the new install that I did, the network interfaces were not
renamed, i.e. they went eth0, eth1, etc. I suspect that udev either
knows not to rename Xen ones, or else it doesn't know anything about
Xen ones so doesn't. Either way I don't think you need to do
anything and the interfaces will stay as eth0.

I think that's probably the best way to keep it as the index of your
network interface is decided on bitfolk's side.

Cheers,
Andy

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