Here's a patch for the Release Notes adding another common corner-case
to the list of things to beware of, plus an updated set of external
links including "https://wiki.debian.org/NetworkInterfaceNames;.
--
JBR with qualifications in linguistics, experience as a Debian
sysadmin, and
On Mon, 2 Sep 2019 at 22:25, Justin B Rye wrote:
> So what did actually go wrong on your systems? You disabled
> /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules and they started using an
> unpredictable slot-based "predictable name"?
Yes, the interfaces file was updated to use PATH-based names but
Hello Justin,
On Thu, 12 Sep 2019 at 16:14, Justin B Rye wrote:
> https://wiki.debian.org/NetworkInterfaceNames
Thank you! Some notes on the page as I read it, (feel free to apply or
ignore; unfortunately I won't have time and energy to discuss this
topic further):
* I'm glad to see
Justin B Rye wrote on Sep 02:
> If I start trying to assemble a Debian Wiki page that the Release
> Notes could point at, can you help? (Criticising it counts as help.)
Slightly delayed by a badly timed broadband outage, here at last is my
first draft:
Dmitry Semyonov wrote:
> The existing text creates an impression that what you should pay
> attention to is only the "onboard" name. Since all this was new to me,
> there was no ONBOARD name, and there was the usual PATH name there, I
> just assumed it was safe to use it without paying attention
Justin,
On Mon, 2 Sep 2019 at 14:25, Justin B Rye wrote:
>
> Dmitry Semyonov wrote:
> > "(If the udevadm output includes an “onboard” name, that takes priority;
> > MAC-based names are normally treated as a fallback, but may be needed
> > for USB network hardware.)"
>
> (Notice that this is a
Dmitry Semyonov wrote:
> Package: release-notes
> Severity: important
>
> The 5.1.5 section of the document[1] contains the following text:
> [1]https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes/ch-information.en.html#migrate-interface-names
>
> "(If the udevadm output includes an
Package: release-notes
Severity: important
The 5.1.5 section of the document[1] contains the following text:
[1]https://www.debian.org/releases/stable/amd64/release-notes/ch-information.en.html#migrate-interface-names
"(If the udevadm output includes an “onboard” name, that takes priority;
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