On Mon, 15 Feb 2021, Keith Lofstrom wrote:
On Sun, Feb 14, 2021 at 09:45:05PM -0800, Russell Senior wrote:
I can understand it making sense in the context of a server with
multiple interfaces. We used to have occasional problems with ethernet
enumeration when we were using recycled PCs as
On 2/15/21 6:46 PM, Keith Lofstrom wrote:
I can remember the ancient days, when source-empowered
users made Linux do what they wanted, rather than Linux
making users conform to the changing whims of a powerful
and unaccountable elite. I don't mind people pissing in
their soup until they like
in the output of "ip link help", I see:
ip link property add dev DEVICE [ altname NAME .. ]
ip link property del dev DEVICE [ altname NAME .. ]
That looks like what maybe you are looking for.
On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 6:59 PM Russell Senior
wrote:
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> I don't see the altname in a Ubuntu
I don't see the altname in a Ubuntu 20.04 with a 5.4.x kernel.
On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 6:59 PM Russell Senior
wrote:
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> Fwiw, on my Ubuntu 20.04 with the hwe kernel (5.8.x), I see an altname:
>
> russell@frieda:~$ ip link show dev enp4s0
>
> 3: eth1: mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel
> state DOWN mode
Fwiw, on my Ubuntu 20.04 with the hwe kernel (5.8.x), I see an altname:
russell@frieda:~$ ip link show dev enp4s0
3: eth1: mtu 1500 qdisc fq_codel
state DOWN mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
link/ether 00:23:54:xx:xx:xx brd ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
altname enp4s0
So, what you are asking
On Sun, Feb 14, 2021 at 09:45:05PM -0800, Russell Senior wrote:
> I can understand it making sense in the context of a server with
> multiple interfaces. We used to have occasional problems with ethernet
> enumeration when we were using recycled PCs as gateway routers. I just
> don't see why that
On Mon, 15 Feb 2021, Ben Koenig wrote:
They are trying to make sure that ethernet ports are predictably labeled.
This means they want to look at the back of the hardware and identify eth0
without the use of software. Most devices are assigned labels in linux as
they are found and the order in
They are trying to make sure that ethernet ports are predictably labeled.
This means they want to look at the back of the hardware and identify eth0
without the use of software. Most devices are assigned labels in linux as
they are found and the order in which they are found is often different
On Sun, 14 Feb 2021, Ben Koenig wrote:
Problem remains unsolved. Whoever funded the development of this feature
should probably ask for their money back. Unless of course their goal was
to destabilize the Linux platform, in which case, Good Job!
Ben,
As a curious non-computer professional I
I can understand it making sense in the context of a server with
multiple interfaces. We used to have occasional problems with ethernet
enumeration when we were using recycled PCs as gateway routers. I just
don't see why that kind of corner case drove adoption for a problem
that didn't exist for
Just some thoughts... If I'm reading the document on freedesktop.org
correctly then this new system does not actually solve the problem it
claims to be solving. Specifically this part here:
"...The following different naming schemes for network interfaces are
now supported by udev natively:
I too have never figured out what was gained by going to
"predictable names" as far as I am concerned it is the
definition of oxymoron. I always knew what eth0 or eth1
or whatever the original names were, these things though
on a given machine will USUALLY come up the same but
they change from
https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PredictableNetworkInterfaceNames/
Given the plenitude of schemes (!) that are supported, this system
deserves the word "predictable" about as much as USB deserves the word
"universal".
On Sat, Feb 13, 2021 at 6:28 PM Russell Senior
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> >
> There are ways to rename the interface back to eth0, but
> I assume this breaks other things,
It doesn't break anything. I routinely turn off the silly "predictable" names.
I use the technique of adding:
GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="net.ifnames=0"
to my /etc/default/grub file, and after
Is there a way to add an alias name for an
ethernet interface, while keeping the system
assigned name (visible with tools like "ip") ?
As I upgrade my machines from ancient distros, one
irritation is the renaming of the first and only
ethernet interface from the simple name "eth0" to
enp6s0 (on
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