{"id":749,"date":"2025-08-13T16:13:21","date_gmt":"2025-08-13T08:13:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/play.datalude.com\/blog\/?p=749"},"modified":"2025-08-13T16:13:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-13T08:13:23","slug":"revert-linux-systemd-interface-naming-to-simple-legacy-naming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/play.datalude.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/revert-linux-systemd-interface-naming-to-simple-legacy-naming\/","title":{"rendered":"Revert Linux systemd interface naming to simple legacy naming"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I do understand the reasons for why this change was made, but I simply don't want to have to remember my USB wifi interface's mac address every time I want to reference it, so this is how to turn back to simpler times. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<pre class=\"wp-block-code\"><code>sudo nano \/etc\/default\/grub\n# Add net.ifnames=0 to the end of your default commandline. eg \n\nGRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=\"net.ifnames=0\"\nGRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT=\"quiet splash net.ifnames=0\"\n\nsudo grub-update\n# Check these don't refer to the previous names. \ncat \/etc\/network\/interfaces \/etc\/network\/interfaces.d\/*\n\nsudo reboot<\/code><\/pre>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Hello eth0 and wlan0. I've missed you. <br><br>This is just a reminder for me, so I don't have to look it up again. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I do understand the reasons for why this change was made, but I simply don't want to have to remember my USB wifi interface's mac address every time I want to reference it, so this is how to turn back to simpler times. Hello eth0 and wlan0. I've missed you. This is just a reminder &#8230; <a title=\"Revert Linux systemd interface naming to simple legacy naming\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/play.datalude.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/revert-linux-systemd-interface-naming-to-simple-legacy-naming\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Revert Linux systemd interface naming to simple legacy naming\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it","category-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/play.datalude.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/play.datalude.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/play.datalude.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play.datalude.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play.datalude.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=749"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/play.datalude.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":750,"href":"https:\/\/play.datalude.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/749\/revisions\/750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/play.datalude.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play.datalude.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/play.datalude.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}