Changeset 3608380f

Timestamp:

12/19/2023 11:50:34 AM (9 months ago)

Author:

Xi Ruoyao <xry111@…>

Branches:

12.1, 12.1-rc1, 12.2, 12.2-rc1, multilib, trunk, xry111/arm64, xry111/clfs-ng, xry111/loongarch, xry111/loongarch-12.1, xry111/loongarch-12.2, xry111/mips64el, xry111/multilib, xry111/update-glibc

Children:

372bbbb, eea548f

Parents:

73805590

Message:

symlinks: Mention how to disable NIC alternative names assignment

Fixes #5394.

File:

• chapter09/symlinks.xml (modified) (1 diff)

chapter09/symlinks.xml

@@ -113 +113 @@
       creating your network configuration files.</para>
 
+      <para>Even if the custom udev rule file is created, udev may still
+      assign one or more alternative names for a NIC based on physical
+      characteristics.  If a custom udev rule would rename another NIC using
+      a name already assigned as an alternative name of another NIC, this
+      udev rule will fail.  If this issue happens, you may create the
+      <filename>/etc/udev/network/99-default.link</filename> configuration
+      file with an empty alternative assignment policy, overriding the
+      default configuration file
+      <filename>/usr/lib/udev/network/99-default.link</filename>:</para>
+
+<screen role="nodump"><userinput>sed -e '/^AlternativeNamesPolicy/s/=.*$/=/'  \
+    -i /usr/lib/udev/network/99-default.link \
+     > /etc/udev/network/99-default.link</userinput></screen>
     </sect3>