On Wed 01 Aug 2018 at 19:57:32 +0200, Pascal Hambourg wrote: > Le 01/08/2018 à 19:32, Brian a écrit : > > On Wed 01 Aug 2018 at 12:00:41 -0400, Mark Neidorff wrote: > > > > > > In the past, I referred to each NIC as eth0, eth1,..... but now, these > > > names > > > are not permanent, and the designation can change on boot. I looked at > > > the > > > "Network Coinfiguration" document which didn't have a solution. So, > > > either how > > > do I make the names for the NICs permanent or what do I use fot the names > > > of > > > the NICs? > > > > Starting with v197, systemd/udev will automatically assign predictable, > > stable network interface names for all local Ethernet devices. jessie > > has udev v215. jessie-backports has v230. > > Jessie still has the old persistent naming scheme using > /lib/udev/rules.d/75-persistent-net-generator.rules and > /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules by default, and the new > predictable naming scheme is disabled (net.ifnames=0). The new predictable > naming scheme has been enabled by default only since Stretch.
Enable it, then. Delete /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-network.rules and put net.ifnames=1 on the kernel command line when booting. -- Brian.