I think consistent device names were mainly meant for laptops etc where a
range of different interfaces popping in and out is a common use case.
Servers are more or less the opposite.

Btw my NAT script now works great across stretch and buster, and also
Ubuntu xenial/bionic work.

Thx

On Sat, 19 Oct 2019 at 07:35, Stephen Gelman <[email protected]> wrote:

> On Oct 17, 2019, at 5:53 PM, Noah Meyerhans <[email protected]> wrote:
> > Can you explain why this causes problems for you? We want to keep device
> > renaming enabled for consistency with standard Debian installations, and
> > we aren't aware of specific problems with it that necessitate it being
> > disabled.
>
> Noah,
>
> I have found when testing buster AMIs that the consistent device naming is
> unpredictable and different for different instance types.  This is
> generally tough for us to standardize configs with configuration
> management.  Yes, I am aware that I can dynamically look up the interface
> but it adds an extra layer of complexity that we have found unnecessary.
> This post on the AWS forums describes similar frustration using an ubuntu
> image: https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=263125.
>
> Stephen
>
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