On Wed 01 Aug 2018 at 19:54:03 +0100, Darac Marjal wrote: > On Wed, Aug 01, 2018 at 12:00:41PM -0400, Mark Neidorff wrote: > > I'm setting up a "just in case" replacement mailserver for my domain and my > > local network. I'm using Debian Jessie, because the latest instructions for > > setting the mailserver (qmail) are written for Jessie. The mailserver has 2 > > NICs (one for local network, and one for Internet). > > > > 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? > > In my opinion, the most "debian" way is to do the following in > /etc/network/interfaces: > > rename eth0=localnet > auto localnet > iface localnet inet static > address blahblah > > rename eth1=internet > iface internet inet dhcp > and so on
Is rename part of the file format of interfaces on jessie? -- Brian.
