On Fri, Mar 3, 2023 at 6:10 PM Greg Wooledge <g...@wooledge.org> wrote: > > On Fri, Mar 03, 2023 at 05:45:54PM -0500, Jeffrey Walton wrote: > > The 'p' is a pci bus, the 's' is a slot number. Since the interface > > does not move around once installed, the interface will always have > > the same name like 'enp4s0'. > > That's a wonderful idea, but it doesn't quite work in practice. There are > ways that a "predictable" interface name may change. A BIOS/firmware > upgrade can do it. Adding or removing devices can also do it, in > some cases. They don't even have to be network interfaces.
Yeah, that's udev and systemd screwing things up. Jeff
