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Restore Human Readable Network Interfaces

  • In Ubuntu 16.04 and newer ubuntu doesn't use the standard eth* device names the following will tell the kernel to use the standard device names
  1. Edit add net.ifnames=0 biosdevname=0 to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX in /etc/default/grub
    GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="net.ifnames=0 biosdevname=0"
  2. Then run upgrade-grub
ubuntu/netdevnames.1487864887.txt.gz · Last modified: 2017/02/23 09:48 by tschulz