This is intended to hold links/cache-copies of public documentation relating to Linux distributions (especially desktop and server). Especially this would mean that documentation pertaining to, e.g., Android (which runs on a Linux kernel but with a completely unique user-land), would be misplaced, here.
Although these documentation pages are hosted by a specific Linux distribution (like Debian, Arch, …), they seem to convey generally useful information.
https://wiki.debian.org/NetworkInterfaceNames:
The simple way of disabling the whole current interface naming scheme (which you might want to try for one-off testing) is just to boot with the kernel parameternet.ifnames=0
, which can be set in an interactive grub session at boot or made persistent by editing/etc/default/grub
and runningupdate-grub
.
Alternatively, you can override/lib/systemd/network/99-default.link
, with a custom version in/etc/systemd/network/
, …