On Sat, 12 Dec 2020 14:15:53 +0100 Antony Stone <antony.st...@devuan.open.source.it> wrote:
> Hi. > > I've just installed a couple of Beowulf systems, each of which has > three ethernet interfaces; one on the motherboard, and two on a PCI > card. > > I'm trying to work out how to give those interfaces the names I want; > the motherboard as eth0, and the PCI card as eth1 / eth2. > > Historically, I've been used to udev > and /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent- net.rules doing this, where I > can specify the name I want for each interface according to its MAC > address. > > The file didn't exist (although the directory did) on my Beowulf > system, so I created one with the appropriate contents, and I now get > messages while the kernel is booting: > > udevd[441]: Error changing net interface name eth2 to eth0: File > exists udevd[441]: could not rename interface '4' from 'eth2' to > 'eth0': File exists udevd[438]: Error changing net interface name > eth1 to eth2: File exists udevd[438]: could not rename interface '3' > from 'eth1' to 'eth2': File exists udevd[445]: Error changing net > interface name eth0 to eth1: File exists udevd[445]: could not rename > interface '2' from 'eth0' to 'eth1': File exists > > I've followed the entire thread on this list from July 2018 about > this, which I've found _some_ of in the archives at > https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/message/20180715.200323.7a2473a2.en.html > however that link shows only a very small proportion of the emails in > the discussion for some reason (I have my own local copy in my mail > client). > > According to https://wiki.debian.org/NetworkInterfaceNames the old 70- > persistent-net.rules system _should_ still work in Buster / Beowulf, > but I can't work out how to get it to do so. > > I _have_ tried adding "net.ifnames=0" to the kernel boot line; this > makes no difference. > > So: > > 1. how can I get 70-persistent-net.rules to carry on working under > Beowulf? > > 2. what's the "correct" way to get my interfaces named the way I > want, according to their MAC addresses, under Beowulf? > > (The above Debian wiki document indicates that Buster is the last > release which will continue to support this, so I'm assuming I'll > need to do something else for Chimaera; what is it?) > > > Thanks, > > > Antony. > Hi, You can: 1) delete the persistent net names file and get the interfaces with old style names but eventually reordered (with net.ifnames=0). 2) use a new net persistent names file using mac address or pci bus (use lspci to get it): SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="00:00:00:00:00:ea", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="?*", NAME:="eth0" SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*", ATTR{address}=="00:00:00:00:00:eb", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="?*", NAME:="eth1" or SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", KERNELS=="0000:01:00.0", NAME:="eth0" SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", KERNELS=="0000:01:00.1", NAME:="eth1" Ciao, Tito _______________________________________________ Dng mailing list Dng@lists.dyne.org https://mailinglists.dyne.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/dng
