On Tue 29 Dec 2015 at 20:55:45 +0100, Hans wrote: > Hi Brian, Felix and Charlie, > > Persistant name generation is enabled by default since udev 220-7 and > > will be used on new installations or with new hardware. Existing > > installations and hardware which get upgraded to udev 220-7 are covered > > by the old 75-persistent-net-generator.rules and will keep their > > interface names > thanks for the fast response. However, it does not explain, why both machines > are different. > > Both machines were installed by DVD and both got the same settings and > package > versions. Both machines were installed by the same DVD and then of course > upgraded by the internet. And both are running debian/testing.
Both machines started life with Jessie. Both were upgraded to Stretchh My understanding is that on package upgrade *both* systems should have kept the interface name they had under Jessie. One machine doesn't; I have no explanation for that. > The only thing, which IMO would explain it, that the EEEPC is newer than the > other one. But then the hardware must talk to the operation system and give > more information to udev or systemd. Does this do such things? There was > something mentioned in the doku, but I did not quite understand, what the > doku > meant. There is a README.Debian for udev which explains how the persistant name generator works. It might help to track down the cause.
