You have been subscribed to a public bug: Currently interfaces(5) says in KNOWN BUGS/LIMITATIONS:
Unfortunately it can happen that the kernel assigns different physical interface names to the same hardware at different times; for example, what was called "eth0" last time you booted is now called "eth1" and vice versa. This creates a problem if you want to configure the interfaces appropriately. A way to deal with this problem is to use mapping scripts that choose logical interface names according to the properties of the interface hardware. See the get-mac-address.sh script in the examples directory for an example of such a mapping script. See also Debian bug #101728. The modern solution, described in Debian docs [1], is to use edit /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules. I suggest we stop talking about confusing get-mac-address.sh script and instead replace the last two "See…" sentences with: See /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules for a way to set interface names persistently. I realize that Debian docs is linked at the end of this man page. But it's not clear it will help with consistent names problem, because KNOWN BUGS says get-mac-address.sh is needed for this. Let's help people new to all these things! We've all been there :-) [1]: http://www.debian.org/doc/manuals/debian-reference/ch05.en.html ** Affects: manpages Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Affects: ifupdown (Ubuntu) Importance: Undecided Status: New ** Tags: bitesize manpage string-fix -- interfaces(5) man page should mention 70-persistent-net.rules for consistent eth* naming https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1295348 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Touch seeded packages, which is subscribed to ifupdown in Ubuntu. -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~touch-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
