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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.
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/
, …