Bug#824491: udev: impossible to disable predictable network interface names

[Michael Biebl]

Hi

Am 16.05.2016 um 19:03 schrieb Steinar H. Gunderson:

> In the brave new world, udev has picked a beautiful predictable interface
> name for the NIC on my ARM board (hooked up over USB), namely "enx001e06303327".
> However, ifupdown is not so thrilled when I try to combine this with VLANs:
> 
>   Error: argument "enx001e06303327.20" is wrong: "name" too long

That sounds like a bug on its own

> 
> Reading https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PredictableNetworkInterfaceNames/
> suggests that I can disable this by "four options", where it lists three,
> out of which two are actually about disabling renaming:
> 
>   1. ln -s /dev/null /etc/udev/rules.d/80-net-setup-link.rules

Have you rebuilt the initramfs after that change? Does the initramfs
contain the rules file?

>   3. Pass net.ifnames=0 on the kernel command line

What's your /proc/cmdline in this case?

Michael


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