Renamed ethernet adapter

[Snyder, Alexander J]

Personally, if you're just trying to solve for a single program that hasn't
been updated to accept modern configurations, I would consider it to be the
minority outlier and just make an alias to resolve the issue.

alias netwatch="netwatch -e enx7cc2c6305483"

Or a function in your .bashrc like "MyNetwatch" or something like that,
that handles an option if you need to not modify how "netwatch" launches by
default.

Thanks,
Alexander

Sent from my Samsung Galaxy S22+

On Wed, May 4, 2022, 16:04 Jim via PLUG-discuss <
plug-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org> wrote:

> Last night I renamed my ethernet adapter enx7cc2c6305483 (only one I
> have) to eth0.  I found the instructions online.  I went into
> /etc/netplan. First I renamed 01-network-manager-all.yaml to o1-network-manager-all.yaml.bak
> Then I created a new 01-network-manager-all.yaml and made the changes I
> wanted.  I did this because I sometimes use netwatch, but it expects eth0
> to be there. I got tired of having to specify the ethernet interface (g).
> After I made the change and rebooted, ifconfig showed eth0 and netwatch
> worked without me having to use -e enx7cc2c6305483.  Today I found that
> Discovery gave me an error saying it was offline, even thought it told me
> there are new updates available.  Also my vpn client stopped working.  This
> was the only changed I made since yesterday, so I undid the changes I made
> in /etc/netplan and rebooted.  Discover and the VPN client worked like
> they're supposed to.  How can I rename the interface to eth0 and fix it so
> nothing complains that the interface it's looking for isn't there? Thanks.
> Below are the two versions of 01-network-manager-all.yaml
>
>
> Original, what I went back to today
>
> # Let NetworkManager manage all devices on this system
> network:
>   version: 2
>   renderer: NetworkManager
>
>
> New one
> # Let NetworkManager manage all devices on this system
>   network:
>    version: 2
>     ethernets:
>         eth0:
>             dhcp4: true
>             match:
>                 macaddress: 7c:c2:c6:30:54:83
>             set-name: eth0
>
> ---------------------------------------------------
> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss at lists.phxlinux.org
> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings:
> https://lists.phxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.phxlinux.org/pipermail/plug-discuss/attachments/20220504/73299ffc/attachment.html>