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Re: How to avoid systemd/udev unpredictable NIC names

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On Ma, 31 aug 21, 16:33:49, Reco wrote:
> On Tue, Aug 31, 2021 at 01:32:32PM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote:
> > 
> > Another completely different approach is to use some other tool to 
> > configure your network that can match on MAC address and just ignore the 
> > names completely.
> 
> Surely you meant ifupdown.

$ dpkg -l ifupdown
dpkg-query: no packages found matching ifupdown

> auto mac/ab:cd:ef:12:34:56/=eth0
> iface eth0 inet static
>   address 192.168.1.123/24
>   gateway 192.168.1.1
>   dns-nameservers 192.168.1.1

Good to know, if I ever need to deal with ifupdown again ;)

Interestingly, you still have to assign some logical name to it, that 
appears to be internal to ifupdown.

To me this looks like potential to create some confusion, especially if 
using eth*/wlan* names.

Kind regards,
Andrei
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How to avoid systemd/udev unpredictable NIC names Steve Keller <keller.steve@gmx.de> - 2021-08-30 22:40 +0200
  Re: How to avoid systemd/udev unpredictable NIC names Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-08-30 23:00 +0200
    Re: How to avoid systemd/udev unpredictable NIC names Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-08-31 12:50 +0200
      Re: How to avoid systemd/udev unpredictable NIC names Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-08-31 13:40 +0200
      Re: How to avoid systemd/udev unpredictable NIC names Reco <recoverym4n@enotuniq.net> - 2021-08-31 16:00 +0200
        Re: How to avoid systemd/udev unpredictable NIC names Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-09-01 19:30 +0200
  Re: How to avoid systemd/udev unpredictable NIC names Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2021-08-30 23:10 +0200
    Re: How to avoid systemd/udev unpredictable NIC names Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2021-08-30 23:30 +0200
    Re: How to avoid systemd/udev unpredictable NIC names Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-08-30 23:30 +0200
      Re: How to avoid systemd/udev unpredictable NIC names IL Ka <kazakevichilya@gmail.com> - 2021-08-30 23:50 +0200
        Re: How to avoid systemd/udev unpredictable NIC names Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-08-31 00:10 +0200
          Re: How to avoid systemd/udev unpredictable NIC names Steve Keller <keller.steve@gmx.de> - 2021-08-31 02:10 +0200
            Re: How to avoid systemd/udev unpredictable NIC names Greg Wooledge <greg@wooledge.org> - 2021-08-31 02:50 +0200
              Re: How to avoid systemd/udev unpredictable NIC names Tixy <tixy@yxit.co.uk> - 2021-08-31 22:10 +0200
        Re: How to avoid systemd/udev unpredictable NIC names Thomas Hochstein <thh@thh.name> - 2021-08-31 00:50 +0200
      Re: How to avoid systemd/udev unpredictable NIC names Steve Keller <keller.steve@gmx.de> - 2021-08-31 01:30 +0200
        Re: How to avoid systemd/udev unpredictable NIC names <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-08-31 08:30 +0200
        Re: How to avoid systemd/udev unpredictable NIC names Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-08-31 12:50 +0200
        Re: How to avoid systemd/udev unpredictable NIC names David Wright <deblis@lionunicorn.co.uk> - 2021-08-31 16:30 +0200
  Re: How to avoid systemd/udev unpredictable NIC names IL Ka <kazakevichilya@gmail.com> - 2021-08-30 23:30 +0200
  Re: How to avoid systemd/udev unpredictable NIC names Roberto C. Sánchez <roberto@debian.org> - 2021-08-31 01:30 +0200
    Re: How to avoid systemd/udev unpredictable NIC names Steve Keller <keller.steve@gmx.de> - 2021-08-31 02:10 +0200
  Re: How to avoid systemd/udev unpredictable NIC names George Shuklin <george.shuklin@gmail.com> - 2021-08-31 15:50 +0200

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