Thanks Reco & Greg. I did see the
/lib/systemd/network/73-usb-net-by-mac.link file. Thanks for that.
I don't know exactly what is happening, but the MAC address of the device
keeps changing after an ifdown/ifup cycle post boot. When the device
boots up, it comes up with its own real MAC, but it is failing to get an
IP. So, then if I do an ifdown and then a subsequent ifup on it, the MAC
then changes to a random number. I also see that the addr_assign_type
attribute of the interface changed from 0 (at boot) to 1 (after the
ifdown/ifup cycle). It then remains as 1 until I reboot...
I also tried adding a udev file (/etc/udev/rules.d/99_fix_usb.rules) with
the following content to try to force the addr_assign_type to 0, but this
did nothing:
SUBSYSTEMS=="usb", SUBSYSTEM=="net", ATTR{addr_assign_type}="0"
Also, here is the output showing all that after a fresh boot:
user1@server1:~$ ip a
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group
default qlen 1000
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: ens4: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast
state DOWN group default qlen 1000
link/ether 00:01:02:03:04:05 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
altname enp40s0
3: enp1s0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP
group default qlen 1000
link/ether 00:11:22:33:44:55 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 10.8.0.11/24 brd 10.8.0.255 scope global enp1s0
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
4: enx001234567890: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc
pfifo_fast state UP group default qlen 1000
link/ether 00:12:34:56:78:90 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 8.8.10.10/24 brd 255.255.255.255 scope global dynamic
enx001234567890
valid_lft 279980sec preferred_lft 279980sec
root@server1:~# cat /sys/class/net/enx001234567890/addr_assign_type
0
root@server1:~# ifdown enx001234567890
Killed old client process
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client 4.4.1
Copyright 2004-2018 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/
Listening on LPF/enx001234567890/00:12:34:56:78:90
Sending on LPF/enx001234567890/00:12:34:56:78:90
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPRELEASE of 8.8.10.10 on enx001234567890 to 192.168.64.33 port 67
root@server1:~# cat /sys/class/net/enx001234567890/addr_assign_type
0
root@server1:~# ip a
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group
default qlen 1000
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: ens4: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast
state DOWN group default qlen 1000
link/ether 00:01:02:03:04:05 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
altname enp40s0
3: enp1s0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP
group default qlen 1000
link/ether 00:11:22:33:44:55 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 10.8.0.11/24 brd 10.8.0.255 scope global enp1s0
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
4: enx001234567890: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state
DOWN group default qlen 1000
link/ether 00:12:34:56:78:90 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
root@server1:~# ifup enx001234567890
Internet Systems Consortium DHCP Client 4.4.1
Copyright 2004-2018 Internet Systems Consortium.
All rights reserved.
For info, please visit https://www.isc.org/software/dhcp/
RTNETLINK answers: Invalid argument
Listening on LPF/enx001234567890/96:6e:37:f1:d0:34
Sending on LPF/enx001234567890/96:6e:37:f1:d0:34
Sending on Socket/fallback
DHCPDISCOVER on enx001234567890 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 8
send_packet: Network is down
dhclient.c:2446: Failed to send 300 byte long packet over enx001234567890
interface.
receive_packet failed on enx001234567890: Network is down
DHCPDISCOVER on enx001234567890 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 17
send_packet: Network is down
dhclient.c:2446: Failed to send 300 byte long packet over enx001234567890
interface.
DHCPDISCOVER on enx001234567890 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 14
send_packet: Network is down
dhclient.c:2446: Failed to send 300 byte long packet over enx001234567890
interface.
DHCPDISCOVER on enx001234567890 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 10
send_packet: Network is down
dhclient.c:2446: Failed to send 300 byte long packet over enx001234567890
interface.
DHCPDISCOVER on enx001234567890 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 12
send_packet: Network is down
dhclient.c:2446: Failed to send 300 byte long packet over enx001234567890
interface.
No DHCPOFFERS received.
No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.
root@server1:~# cat /sys/class/net/enx001234567890/addr_assign_type
1
root@server1:~# ip a
1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group
default qlen 1000
link/loopback 00:00:00:00:00:00 brd 00:00:00:00:00:00
inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
2: ens4: <NO-CARRIER,BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast
state DOWN group default qlen 1000
link/ether 00:01:02:03:04:05 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
altname enp40s0
3: enp1s0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq state UP
group default qlen 1000
link/ether 00:11:22:33:44:55 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
inet 10.8.0.11/24 brd 10.8.0.255 scope global enp1s0
valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever
4: enx001234567890: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc pfifo_fast state
DOWN group default qlen 1000
link/ether 96:6e:37:f1:d0:34 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff permaddr
00:12:34:56:78:90
On Wed, Feb 16, 2022 at 3:55 AM Flacusbigotis <flacusbigo...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> My internet connection is off the ethernet port of a PCI-E card that also
> has USB ports on it, so the ethernet device is recognized as a "USB
> ethernet device"...
>
> Back in Debian Buster, I learned that the "predictive" naming of this USB
> ethernet interface would be governed by "73-usb-net-by-mac.rules" and so I
> had it configured accordingly with a config file in
> /etc/network/interfaces.d/... Namely that the device name would basically
> be its MAC.
>
> Well, I just upgraded to Bullseye, and I can't bring up the darn
> interface. I have tried fiddling around with the device name in my config
> file in /etc/network/interfaces.d/ directory, but it just won't come up.
> The Networking.service also fails during bootup.
>
> I also noticed that the 73-usb-net-by-mac.rules file has completely
> disappeared, never mind that the official Debian NetworkInterfaceNames page
> here <https://wiki.debian.org/NetworkInterfaceNames> still talks about it!
>
> Anyone know how the heck this is supposed to work in Bullseye?
>
> BTW, the device shows up as disabled in lshw (I obfuscated the MAC in the
> output):
>
> *-network DISABLED
> description: Ethernet interface
> physical id: 1
> bus info: usb@7:1
> logical name: enx00XXXXXXXXXX <<<=== Yes, I tried using this
> name in the config
> serial: 00:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX
> size: 10Mbit/s
> capacity: 1Gbit/s
> capabilities: ethernet physical tp mii 10bt 10bt-fd 100bt 100bt-fd
> 1000bt 1000bt-fd autonegotiation
> configuration: autonegotiation=off broadcast=yes
> driver=ax88179_178a driverversion=5.10.0-11-amd64 duplex=half link=no
> multicast=yes port=MII speed=10Mbit/s
>
>
>
>
