Linux networking
Network Interface Names
Section titled “Network Interface Names”A list of network interfaces can be found in /sys/class/net/
Naming Scheme
Section titled “Naming Scheme”Traditionally eth0, eth1 and so on were used for ethernet interface names. This led to issues as names could change
when hardware configuration was changed.
systemd/udev
Section titled “systemd/udev”systemd/udev will assign persistent,
predictable network interface names
that are guaranteed to remain the same when hardware is added or removed.
Examples network interface names are
eno1for an on-board NIC.enp0s3andenp0s8for PCI NICs.