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On Sun, Apr 03, 2022 at 05:55:12PM +0000, Andy Smith wrote:
> The version of udev that will come with the next Debian stable and
> Ubuntu LTS releases has learned about Xen network interfaces and as
> a result they will be subjected to "predictable network interface
> naming":
>
> https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PredictableNetworkInterfaceNames/
>
> That is, you won't have an eth0 any more, it will be en123abc or
> whatever, based on MAC address.
Having now tested this, eth0 will actually get renamed to enX0.
Starting Raise network interfaces...
[FAILED] Failed to start Raise network interfaces.
See 'systemctl status networking.service' for details.
Debian GNU/Linux bookworm/sid debtest1 hvc0
debtest1 login: root
Password:
Linux debtest1 5.16.0-5-amd64 #1 SMP PREEMPT Debian 5.16.14-1 (2022-03-15) x86_64
root@debtest1:~# ip link
2: enX0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 qdisc noop state DOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
link/ether 00:16:5e:00:02:39 brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
So it actually is entirely predictable, if of questionable point.
Cheers,
Andy
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