On Tue, Apr 11, 2017 at 08:02:56AM -0500, Leroy Tennison wrote: > This does concern me, another post referred to the heavy-handed way > in which systemd has been implemented and I totally agree. "You > will conform" - no exceptions. What I fear is that we will lose the > ability to control the name, MAC address association at some future > point because "no one needs to do that" (speaking from their ivory > tower). To be honest, if you use systemd-networkd (instead of NM or the network init script), you can arbitrarily name your interfaces whatever you want, in a much more configuration-management-friendly way. It's just that systemd-networkd isn't that well-known yet. I'm on the fence about whether I like it or not. It is nice that its really simple files and consistent across distros, but it doesn't yet do stuff like wifi well. Also, most GNOME desktops have a NM applet that gets confused if you're using systemd-networkd. I still feel like systemd-networkd is a lot less convoluted than NetworkManager. https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/systemd-networkd.service.html -- Jonathan Billings <billings at negate.org>