On Saturday 12 December 2020 at 16:06:29, tito via Dng wrote:

> On Sat, 12 Dec 2020 14:15:53 +0100 Antony Stone wrote:
> > Historically, I've been used to udev
> > and /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent- net.rules doing this, where I
> > can specify the name I want for each interface according to its MAC
> > address.
> >
> > The file didn't exist (although the directory did) on my Beowulf
> > system, so I created one with the appropriate contents, and I now get
> > messages while the kernel is booting:
> >
> > udevd[441]: Error changing net interface name eth2 to eth0: File exists
> > udevd[441]: could not rename interface '4' from 'eth2' to 'eth0': File
> > exists
> > udevd[438]: Error changing net interface name eth1 to eth2: File exists
> > udevd[438]: could not rename interface '3' from 'eth1' to 'eth2': File
> > exists
> > udevd[445]: Error changing net interface name eth0 to eth1: File exists
> > udevd[445]: could not rename interface '2' from 'eth0' to 'eth1': File
> > exists

> > I _have_ tried adding "net.ifnames=0" to the kernel boot line; this
> > makes no difference.

> Hi,
> You can:
>

> 1) delete the persistent net names file and get the interfaces with
>      old style names but eventually reordered (with net.ifnames=0).

I do not have a problem with the style of the names.

I am getting eth0 and eth1 on my PCI card and eth2 on the motherboard.

I want eth0 on the motherboard and eth1 and eth2 on the PCI card.

> 2) use a new net persistent names file using mac address or pci bus (use
> lspci to get it):
>
> SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*",
> ATTR{address}=="00:00:00:00:00:ea", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="?*",
> NAME:="eth0"
> SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*",
> ATTR{address}=="00:00:00:00:00:eb", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="?*",
> NAME:="eth1"

Sorry, how is that different from what I already did above?


Regards,


Antony.

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