Tuesday, June 30, 2015

Ubuntu server change NIC name p5p1 to eth0

After instalation of ubuntu server, got some strange NIC names like p5p1. Let's change it to something more convinient.

edit /etc/default/grub file

sudo nano /etc/default/grub

Modify line:

GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="net.ifnames=0 biosdevname=0"

make new grub.cfg file:

sudo grub-mkconfig -o /boot/grub/grub.cfg

reboot server. After reboot you need to edit /etc/network/interfaces file:

sudo nano /etc/network/interfaces

change p5p1 to eth0, save file and start eth0 interface:

sudo ifconfig eth0 up