• 🐍🩶🐢@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    I have a hatred for the enp id thing as it isn’t any better for me. It changes on me every time I add/remove a hard drive or enable/disable the WiFi card in the BIOS. For someone who is building up a server and making changes to it, this becomes a real pain. What happens if a drive dies? Do I have to change the network config yet again over this?

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      8 months ago

      Use a systems rule to give it a consistent name based on its MAC address, driver, etc. I just had this exact same problem setting up my servers.

      root@prox1:~# cat /etc/systemd/network/10-persistent-10g.link 
      [Match]
      Driver=atlantic
      
      [Link]
      Name=nic10g
      
      root@prox1:~# cat /etc/systemd/network/10-persistent-1g.link 
      [Match]
      Driver=igb
      
      [Link]
      Name=nic1g