> On Jan 30, 2020, at 04:48 PM, Bob Weber <bobrwe...@gmail.com> wrote:
> "Example 3. Debugging NamePolicy= assignments" near the bottom of the page at
> "https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.link.html";
Yeah. That's one I looked at. The one with the table of the Ethernet speeds and
duplexity. And the list and descriptions of data that're sometimes needed in
the file.
I'll look at this again tomorrow, Bob, but I'm really not impressed with the
way systemd is setting up the Ethernet interfaces. Like I said before,
"Counting Ethernet interfaces isn't rocket science." But it can be made so if
you make things complex and spread the config over several dirs and several
files, some of which are explained in the dox but turn out not to exist on my
Buster disk.
Somehow, back in the eth days, the data in Debian's /etc/network/interfaces
file was enough to get networking going. Then, on an Ethernet network, the
Ethernet chips pretty well figured out the best speed and duplex all by
themselves as soon as they connected to something.
> This nameing configuration has worked on 5 Debian systems all running updated
> testing.
And counting interfaces has worked for me for a couple decades, on many systems
and several OSs. But I'll find your earlier email and try systemd one more
time. It'd be nice for the interface names to be, as systemd calls it,
'consistent.'
And, FWIF, I appreciate your help and advice...
--
Glenn English
