interfaces(5) man page should mention 70-persistent-net.rules for consistent eth* naming
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ifupdown (Ubuntu) |
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Bug Description
Currently interfaces(5) says in KNOWN BUGS/LIMITATIONS:
interface names to the same hardware at different times; for example,
what was called "eth0" last time you booted is now called "eth1" and
vice versa. This creates a problem if you want to configure the
interfaces appropriately. A way to deal with this problem is to use
mapping scripts that choose logical interface names according to the
properties of the interface hardware. See the get-mac-address.sh
script in the examples directory for an example of such a mapping
script. See also Debian bug #101728.
The modern solution, described in Debian docs [1], is to use edit /etc/udev/
See /etc/udev/
I realize that Debian docs is linked at the end of this man page. But it's not clear it will help with consistent names problem, because KNOWN BUGS says get-mac-address.sh is needed for this. Let's help people new to all these things! We've all been there :-)
[1]: http://
description: | updated |
tags: | added: bitesize string-fix |
affects: | ubuntu → ifupdown (Ubuntu) |