Re: [arch-general] Why does network interface sometimes change name?

On Mon, Apr 6, 2015 at 4:36 PM, Felix E. Klee <felix.klee@inka.de> wrote:

I am running Arch as a guest in VMware Player on Win7X64. On every odd boot, the name of the network interface changes. Sometimes it is:

eno16777736

Sometimes it is:

eth0

I had the corresponding issue on a machine with two nics (not vm though), and what fixed it for me was to add a udev rule (though it does depend on having consistent mac address for each nic): # cat /etc/udev/rules.d/10-network.rules SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", ATTR{address}=="4c:72:b9:32:45:30", NAME="eno1" SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", ATTR{address}=="4c:72:b9:32:45:32", NAME="eno2" If you want to associate a specific nic to a name chosen by you then this may help. -- mike c