On Saturday 12 December 2020 at 16:28:04, Didier Kryn wrote: > Le 12/12/2020 à 14:15, Antony Stone a écrit : > > > > 1. how can I get 70-persistent-net.rules to carry on working under > > Beowulf? > > > > 2. what's the "correct" way to get my interfaces named the way I want, > > according to their MAC addresses, under Beowulf? > > Udev has made a big effort to hide its action to the administrator. > The rules have first been cached in /lib/udev; then the administerable > files in /etc have been removed. > > Eudev keeps a track of the names it has already assigned to > interfaces, in /lib/udev/rules.d .
Ah, thanks, I didn't know about that directory (and indeed there are a *lot* of files in it - far more even than I'm used to seeing in old Debian machines' /etc/udev/rules.d/ directories). > Maybe you can find something concerning your ethernet interfaces in > one of these files and maybe your problem is just that Eudev doesn't > want to overwrite that file; therefore you might try to delete it > (rename it for safety). Hm; no. Firstly there are no references to eth0, eth1 or eth2 in any of those files, and secondly the files are all older than Jan 1 2020, so clearly nothing has been put there based on the hardware in this machine. > I don't grant it works; but this is one thing I would try. Thanks for the idea, and thanks for pointing me at something I didn't previously know about, even if it wasn't the solution to my problem. Antony. -- Never automate fully anything that does not have a manual override capability. Never design anything that cannot work under degraded conditions in emergency. Please reply to the list; please *don't* CC me. _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng