On 6/28/25 10:34 PM, Merell L. Matlock, Jr. wrote:
On Sat, Jun 28, 2025 at 01:24:44PM -0500, David C Rankin wrote:
On 6/28/25 12:09 PM, David C Rankin wrote:
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I've been following this thread; and although I don't have any firm advice to give, I will say that I've *never* had any good results using those cruddy 'enpxxxx' interface names.
I'm not a big fan of avahi, either.
Merell
Thanks Merrell, Yes, I was a bit skeptical of the change from persistent naming long ago, but honestly, I've just lived with it and not had any issues. This box has been running for nearly a decade: # head /var/log/pacman.log [2015-08-21 07:11] [PACMAN] Running 'pacman -r /mnt -Sy --cachedir=/mnt/var/cache/pacman/pkg base base-devel' [2015-08-21 07:11] [PACMAN] synchronizing package lists [2015-08-21 07:20] [ALPM] transaction started [2015-08-21 07:20] [ALPM] installed linux-api-headers (4.1.4-1) <snip> So while I preferred the old eth0, eth1, etc... I've not had any problems with the new naming, and the interface on this box has always remained enp5s0. (not quite as easy to remember as eth0, but after a decade it finally settles into memory :) (of course the older I get, the more things get tossed from memory as well...) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E.