Re: Display of network activity quit working.
James Tyrer <[email protected]>
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On 06/26/2013 01:52 AM, Duncan wrote: > James Tyrer posted on Tue, 25 Jun 2013 14:22:44 -0700 as excerpted: > >> I am just finishing up with updating to 4.10.3 if that matters. >> Somewhere before that, the display of my network activity quit working. >> I think that it might have been exactly when my Ethernet ports were >> assigned new and strange names. I now have two named: >> >> enp5s12 enp0s18 > > Umm... you can thank systemd's udev for that. (Whether Lennart actually > had anything to do with it or not I'm not sure, but it does feel like the > sort of stuff he tends to do.) > > They apparently "decided" that the traditional/default-kernel style eth* > and wlan* interface names weren't confusing enough, and that names that > looked like some sort of ascii-armored encryption were far more useful. > > The official explanation is that the new names are more stable or at > least predictable, which they arguably could be for people who have > several such interfaces and keep swapping them out. What they apparently > forgot is the vast numbers of people who only have a single ethernet > interface and/or a single wlan interface, who are unlikely to ever change > it unless it breaks and they replace it, in which case the names stayed > the same before (eth0, wlan0), but are now likely to change. > > http://www.google.com/search?q=systemd+network+interface+names > > As several of those first-page google hits should point out, the names > above stand for en=ethernet, p#=pci-bus-number, s#=slot-number. > > And at least it's relatively easy to either disable the new naming and go > back to the old naming, or assign your own stable names as desired: > > Something like this as /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules should > assign your chosen name (as one line): I didn't notice this, and this may be the problem. I don't have a file: "70-persistent-net.rules". I forget what was supposed to write it. I thought that it was written on boot if it didn't exist. -- James Tyrer Linux (mostly) From Scratch ___________________________________________________ This message is from the kde-linux mailing list. Account management: https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kde-linux. Archives: http://lists.kde.org/. More info: http://www.kde.org/faq.html.