On Thu, Dec 29, 2016 at 8:15 PM, Miroslav Rovis <miro.ro...@croatiafidelis.hr> wrote: > On 161229-05:13-0500, Tom H wrote: >> On Tue, Dec 27, 2016 at 1:53 PM, lee <l...@yagibdah.de> wrote: >> > Neil Bothwick <n...@digimed.co.uk> writes: >>>> >> There are two ways to ensure that you always have the kernel's names: >> >> 1) Add "net.ifnames=0" to the kernel cmdline > > I use that all the time. > > Of course, I don't use the below, no poetterware in my machine: > >> 2) Override "NamePolicy=..." in "/lib/systemd/network/99-default.link" >> with "NamePolicy=kernel" in "/etc/systemd/network/99-default.link". > > But I respect if anybody else wants it, let them have it, just, allow > free speech, as you, _mostly_, do, id est, to tell people unintrusively > what that SystemDisaster is...
It's too bad that the eudev maintainers didn't see fit to keep the ".link" units (they could've moved them to "/{etc,lib}/udev/network/" if having "systemd" in a path's a no-no") because they make renaming a NIC simpler.