On Mon, Jul 01, 2019 at 02:15:50PM -0000, Curt wrote:
> On 2019-07-01, Greg Wooledge <wool...@eeg.ccf.org> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jul 01, 2019 at 07:47:35AM -0000, Curt wrote:
> >> Another, less serious, gotcha for those inveterate upgraders and newbies
> >> who don't read the release notes is that
> >> '/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules' is no longer a valid
> >> mechanism for defining device names.
> >
> > For whatever it's worth, when I upgraded this machine from stretch to
> > buster a couple months ago, it continued using eth0 as the interface
> > name without any immediately obvious issues. I did the conversion to
> > "predictable interface names" anyway, just in case there might be some
> > subtle problem that I wasn't yet seeing.
> >
> >
>
> And you had that device name defined (as I did) in
> '/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules' when you upgraded?
Yes. In fact it's still there, but I commented it out by hand after
the buster upgrade.
wooledg:~$ cat /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules
# This file was automatically generated by the /lib/udev/write_net_rules
# program, run by the persistent-net-generator.rules rules file.
#
# You can modify it, as long as you keep each rule on a single
# line, and change only the value of the NAME= key.
# PCI device 0x8086:0x15b7 (e1000e)
# SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*",
ATTR{address}=="a0:8c:fd:c3:89:e0", ATTR{dev_id}=="0x0", ATTR{type}=="1",
KERNEL=="eth*", NAME="eth0"
