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Author: fsmithred
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To: devuan-dev
Subject: Re: [devuan-dev] eudev net.ifnames logic reversing proposal
On 08/20/2017 09:01 AM, Ivan J. wrote:

> This would lead network interface names default to the old "eth0" or
> "wlan0" scheme, rather than the new(?) "enp0s3"-like scheme. It implies
> having "net.ifnames=1" in the kernel cmdline to get the "enp0s3"-like
> scheme and not touching anything to get the "eth0" scheme.
>
> If there are no objections until wednesday, I'd push this trivial, but
> important to discuss patch to the package and build it for the
> repositories. Please see the patch below:
>


Yes!

It would be good to have some kind of warning to the user upon
installation, in case they are using the new interface names.


fsmithred (always thinking of ways to reduce help requests)