Hey all,
I have been running a somewhat complex network setup on my server for some time:
2x Copper Gigabit Ethernet on Server Board
4x Copper Gigabit Ethernet (Intel 4x PRO/1000 NIC)
1x 10GBaseT Intel 82598EB
I'm not going to go into the details of what they are used for, as it is not relevant to this question, but the end result is I have a lot of Ethernet device names to manage
Today I am working on a project to replace the old Intel 10GBase-T NIC with a dual Intel X-520 fiber NIC.
So, my problem is as follows:
The existing Ethernet devices were configured years ago when Proxmox was on Debian Jessie. They are all listed in /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules, and get device names eth0 through eth6. I ahve since upgraded the server to the latest versions of Proxmox and the underlying Debian base.
Now that I have pulled the old 10GBaseT adapter and replaced it with th edual port x520, for consistency's sake I was hoping its two ports would become eth6 and eth7. No such luck. Now on the new version of Debian that Proxmox is based on it is using the fancy new device names and calling the two ports enp6s0f0 and enp6s0f1.
So, I remembered that the last time I needed to change Ethernet device names I had to edit /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules, so took a look at that file. It is unchanged after removing the old NIC and inserting the old one. The old Intel 10GBase-T adapter is still listed there with it's old MAC Address.
The descriptive text in the file says that the only part of it that is user modifiable is the NAME= string, but that's not going to work for me as the devices I want to edit are not listed. The description in the file says it is automatically generated by the /lib/udev/write_net_rules, but that script does not exist.
I tried manually looking up the numerical PCI device strings using lspci -n and the mac addresses and creating my own lines, ignoring the comments in the file, but this had no effect. After a reboot, all of my legacy installed Ethernet devices are still named eth0 - eth5, and the two new ports are enp6s0f0 and enp6s0f1.
Does anyone have any suggestions regarding how to fix this? Ideally I'd like all of the devices to have old fashioned eth0 type names, configurable by me, but I'd be OK with new style names as well. I really just don't want the unholy mix I have between the two right now.
Any suggestions welcome!
I have been running a somewhat complex network setup on my server for some time:
2x Copper Gigabit Ethernet on Server Board
4x Copper Gigabit Ethernet (Intel 4x PRO/1000 NIC)
1x 10GBaseT Intel 82598EB
I'm not going to go into the details of what they are used for, as it is not relevant to this question, but the end result is I have a lot of Ethernet device names to manage
Today I am working on a project to replace the old Intel 10GBase-T NIC with a dual Intel X-520 fiber NIC.
So, my problem is as follows:
The existing Ethernet devices were configured years ago when Proxmox was on Debian Jessie. They are all listed in /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules, and get device names eth0 through eth6. I ahve since upgraded the server to the latest versions of Proxmox and the underlying Debian base.
Now that I have pulled the old 10GBaseT adapter and replaced it with th edual port x520, for consistency's sake I was hoping its two ports would become eth6 and eth7. No such luck. Now on the new version of Debian that Proxmox is based on it is using the fancy new device names and calling the two ports enp6s0f0 and enp6s0f1.
So, I remembered that the last time I needed to change Ethernet device names I had to edit /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules, so took a look at that file. It is unchanged after removing the old NIC and inserting the old one. The old Intel 10GBase-T adapter is still listed there with it's old MAC Address.
The descriptive text in the file says that the only part of it that is user modifiable is the NAME= string, but that's not going to work for me as the devices I want to edit are not listed. The description in the file says it is automatically generated by the /lib/udev/write_net_rules, but that script does not exist.
I tried manually looking up the numerical PCI device strings using lspci -n and the mac addresses and creating my own lines, ignoring the comments in the file, but this had no effect. After a reboot, all of my legacy installed Ethernet devices are still named eth0 - eth5, and the two new ports are enp6s0f0 and enp6s0f1.
Does anyone have any suggestions regarding how to fix this? Ideally I'd like all of the devices to have old fashioned eth0 type names, configurable by me, but I'd be OK with new style names as well. I really just don't want the unholy mix I have between the two right now.
Any suggestions welcome!
