On Wednesday 28 August 2019 16:55:20 Greg Wooledge wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 28, 2019 at 04:04:48PM -0400, Greg Wooledge wrote:
> > He apparently wants to make his operating system refuse to register
> > persistent interface names, on the grounds that he frequently moves
> > a physical hard drive from one system to another, and doesn't want
> > to go through the hassle of reassigning the interface names each
> > time.
> >
> > If you know a way to do that other than the ways I suggested, go
> > ahead and tell us.
>
> This came up by surprise in IRC for a totally unrelated issue, but it
> appears to be relevant to Gene's wish set:
>
> In squeeze, wheezy, and jessie, and *possibly* stretch, the persistent
> interface names that are stored in
> /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules are created by
> /lib/udev/rules.d/75-persistent-net-generator.rules.
>
> If for some reason one wishes to AVOID having udev's persistent
> interface names in these older Debian releases (and is not using the
> "predictable" net.ifnames thing in stretch), one may follow these
> steps:
>
> touch /etc/udev/rules.d/75-persistent-net-generator.rules
> rm /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules
>
> Apparently, creating an *empty* file named
> /etc/udev/rules.d/75-persistent-net-generator.rules overrides the
> instructions in /lib/udev/rules.d/75-persistent-net-generator.rules
> and causes the generator not to run, when it would normally run.
>
That is not exactly whats been done. That /e/d/r/70-p*-net.rules file has
only been deleted once. After a reboot, using the net.ifnames=0 kernel
option, its re-created and reads like this:
root@GO704:~# 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 0x14e4:/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1c.0/0000:02:00.0
(tg3)
SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*",
ATTR{address}=="00:13:72:72:66:3c", ATTR{dev_id}=="0x0",
ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*", NAME="eth0"
EOF
eth0, which I fixed in /e/n/i. And its since been rebooted quite a few
times with no further change. And That Is What I Wanted. And I expect
I could move that drive back to its original box with no further drama.
I have more interface cards ordered, but its come to my attention that
powering the cards from separate psu's of their own, is also preventing
them from being given a powerdown reset by power cycleing the computer.
I can and will jumper them to the computer 5 volts tomorrow, and that
may well fix it. If not, replacement cards, to be flashed to the proper
firmware by me, are one day closer by priority mail.
> This prevents the recreation of
> /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules which means your interfaces
> will not be saved across reboots. You'll go through the fun steps of
> having the system pull interfaces out of a hat and name them, every
> single time. Which seems to be what Gene wants.
Not what I am getting, see above.
> I have not tested this. I am not going to. If it doesn't work, too
> bad.
Cheers, Gene Heskett
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