Ubuntu Finally Looks To Go With Persistent Network Interface Names

[aksdb]

In my opinion that's not "persistent" at all. Because "persistence" is a matter of how you look at it. For me it's "persistent" if I know that "wlan0" will be the wlan interface if available. "wlan1" will be the next. wlp3s0 is mschine/hardware/setup specific. If I change the order of the hardware components or boot my live stick on a different machine, the name could be a different one.

But as I said: a matter of opinion.
I'm also aware that they are _usually_ called "predictable" interface names. Yes, predictable they are. I still don't like it :-) (And disabled it on my machines.)

[Ericg]

So what would it look like for example?

Old: wlan0
new: wlp3s0
old: eth0
new: enp0s25

As per: https://wiki.freedesktop.org/www/Sof...nterfaceNames/

[TheRealBecks]

So what would it look like for example?

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Ubuntu Finally Looks To Go With Persistent Network Interface Names

While Linux distributions like Fedora and Mageia have adopted predictable/persistent network interface names, Ubuntu has not. However, that is looking to change and it might also be the case for upstream Debian...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Ubuntu-Persistent-Net-Names