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Flaep
Asked: 2021-04-07 03:08:56 +0800 CST

Change network interface name with systemd.link on Ubuntu 18.04.5

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I am trying to set some universal names for the predictable names. I am doing this to be able to have the same interface names on all my machines.

Iam trying to follow "Example 2. /etc/systemd/network/10-dmz.link" from https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.link.html

my files look as follows:

/etc/systemd/network/10-dmz.link

[Match] 
MACAddress=80:ee:73:f1:01:43

[Link]
Name=dmz0

/etc/systemd/network/10-dmz.network

[Match] 
Name=dmz0

[Network]

Address=192.168.25.2/24

After reboot I do not get an interface called dmz0. Systemd-networkd is enabled and setting a IP on another interface with a .network file works.

What am I missing?

thank you

systemd ubuntu-18.04 udevd

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    to have the interface names changed I had to run

    update-initramfs -u

    and reboot

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