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Month: November 2016

Get rid of Ubuntu's network card naming

I’m documenting this in public because I am likely not alone in disliking Ubuntu 16.04’s network interface naming scheme.
All I had to do was pass these kernel parameters when installing to end up with my network interface named ‘eth0’:
biosdevname=0 net.ifnames=0
Simple!

Author Peter HicksPosted on Sunday 13 November 2016Categories UbuntuLeave a comment on Get rid of Ubuntu's network card naming

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