On Mon, 09 Oct 2017 at 14:45:47 -0500
John Morris <jmorris@???> wrote:

> On Sat, 2017-10-07 at 10:06 -0300, Renaud (Ron) OLGIATI wrote:
>> On Sat, 7 Oct 2017 13:51:02 +0100
>> Simon Hobson <linux@???> wrote:
>>
>>> The topic was discussed to death not long ago and the consensus seemed
>>> to be that "there is no solution that works for everyone" ! As Jochen
>>> says, for "simple" machines with no more than one ethernet and one
>>> wifi, nothing needs to be done. For everything else then there is a
>>> problem that needs solving.
>>>
>>> I think the only thing we did all agree on was that systemd's latest
>>> screw around with device names was the worst option of all !
>>
>> What about the possibility of having somewhere a config option:
>> "Do you want fixed NIC names or do you want them renamed whenever
>> changed/moved ?"
>
> There is. Make /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules a symlink
> to /dev/null and it will leave you alone. Do another for
> 70-persistent-cd.rules if you have a laptop and have external burners at
> home and work. On the other hand, udev rules can also be mighty handy
> for making sure USB-Serial adapters, android devices, USB sticks, etc.
> show up at consistent locations when that is what you want.

By the manual, the correct solution in configuring Grub as to pass the
kernel these parameters:

biosdevname=0 net.ifnames=0


Alessandro