On Sunday 13 December 2020 at 00:01:11, Florian Zieboll via Dng wrote:

> On Sat, 12 Dec 2020 23:11:52 +0100 Antony Stone wrote:
> > I would still *really like* to know:
> >
> > 1. how can I get 70-persistent-net.rules to carry on working as it
> > used to, under Beowulf? (I never had to do this sort of workaround
> > in Jessie or before.)
>
> Hallo Antony,
>
> do I understand correctly, that your issue is the order of the NICs
> (not eth0 assigned to the onboard card, but eth1 or eth2) and not the
> naming scheme (ethN vs. predictable) itself?

Correct.

> If so, have you double checked, that 'net.ifnames=0' is really not set / did
> you remember to 'update-grub' after changing it?

Both correct.

> Did you check /lib/udev/rules.d/ for conflicting rules?

There is nothing there which:

a) references the names of my interfaces (eg: eth0)

b) references the MAC addresses of my interfaces

c) is more recent than January 1st 2020, on a machine I installed last week,
therefore I don't believe the files there have any knowledge of my hardware.


Antony.

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