Change Network Interface Name in Debian 8 s390

[Raphael Philipe]

Hi

I wanted to change the network interface name without using a custom
udev rule like 70-persistent-net.rules.

To do that, In Debian 8, I created a network interface hardware config
file (/etc/sysconfig/hardware/config-ccw-0.0.xxxx) with the following
content:

CCWGROUP_CHANS=(0.0.xxxx 0.0.xxxy 0.0.xxxz)
QETH_PORTNAME=OSAPORT
QETH_PORTNO=0
QETH_OPTIONS=(layer2)
INTERFACE_NAME=ethfoo

The interface is created and up properly. However the name of the
interface remains enccw0.0.xxxx

Am I doing it right?

obs.: xxxx stands for the device number of my network interface.

I would appreciate if someone could take a look at this.

Best regards,
Raphael Philipe Mendes da Silva.

[Viktor Mihajlovski]

Post by Raphael Philipe
Hi
I wanted to change the network interface name without using a custom
udev rule like 70-persistent-net.rules.
To do that, In Debian 8, I created a network interface hardware config
file (/etc/sysconfig/hardware/config-ccw-0.0.xxxx) with the following
CCWGROUP_CHANS=(0.0.xxxx 0.0.xxxy 0.0.xxxz)
QETH_PORTNAME=OSAPORT
QETH_PORTNO=0
QETH_OPTIONS=(layer2)
INTERFACE_NAME=ethfoo
The interface is created and up properly. However the name of the
interface remains enccw0.0.xxxx
Am I doing it right?
obs.: xxxx stands for the device number of my network interface.
I would appreciate if someone could take a look at this.
Best regards,
Raphael Philipe Mendes da Silva.

I have no Debian 8/jessie running presently. The following worked for me
on testing. Source
http://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd.link.html

1. Write a file /etc/systemd/network/10-ethfoo.link with the following
content:
[Match]
MACAddress=nn:nn:nn:nn:nn:nn

[Link]
Name=ethfoo

2. Edit /etc/network/interfaces and replace enccw0.0.xxxx with ethfoo

3. Reboot

I didn't try out other matching mechanisms than the MAC address, but you
are welcome to do that and post your results.