[PLUG] adding network name alias

[Russell Senior]

https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PredictableNetworkInterfaceNames/

Given the plenitude of schemes (!) that are supported, this system
deserves the word "predictable" about as much as USB deserves the word
"universal".

On Sat, Feb 13, 2021 at 6:28 PM Russell Senior
<russell at personaltelco.net> wrote:
>
> > There are ways to rename the interface back to eth0, but
> > I assume this breaks other things,
>
> It doesn't break anything. I routinely turn off the silly "predictable" names.
>
> I use the technique of adding:
>
> GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="net.ifnames=0"
>
> to my /etc/default/grub file, and after running:
>
> sudo update-grub2 (or equivalent) you are good for the long haul.