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Re: Debian 10 --> 11 on Dell R740: network interfaces renamed



On Wed, Jun 08, 2022 at 02:17:18PM -0600, Charles Curley wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Jun 2022 15:17:04 -0400
> Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> wrote:
> 
> > I strongly recommend that you create systemd.link(5) files, one for
> > each interface.
> 
> Or just get back the original interface naming scheme.
> https://wiki.debian.org/NetworkInterfaceNames#THE_ORIGINAL_SIMPLE_SCHEME

On a machine with 6 ethernet interfaces, I doubt this will give stable
names either.  The original "eth0" scheme is absolutely perfect for a
machine with exactly 1 ethernet interface, but becomes unreliable with
more interfaces.


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