On 03.09.17 20:09, Glenn English wrote: > I looked on the 'Net, asking why the interface names were changed. I > found a good reason: sometimes the ethn names aren't reliably > consistent. Fine, I say, you've figured how to make them consistent. > That's no reason to change the names from a meaningful 4 or 5 chars to > 11, chosen by /dev/urandom.
Most eloquently put, and you speak for thousands. > Somebody's selling the Debian management a pile of bull excrement. Noo-oo, I firmly believe they're smoking it. In addition to Fungi4All's solution, there's also ifrename (in package of same name): DESCRIPTION Ifrename is a tool allowing you to assign a consistent name to each of your network interfaces. But Fungi4All's solution is so easy to use that I'm won over, and have implemented it here. Erik
