Why eth0 is renamed to enx78e7d1ea46da after upgrade?

Question

I think this is related to Predictable Network Interface Names. The device is a Raspberry Pi B model running kali (kali-next)

1. Names incorporating Firmware/BIOS provided index numbers for on-board devices (example: eno1)
2. Names incorporating Firmware/BIOS provided PCI Express hotplug slot index numbers (example: ens1)
3. Names incorporating physical/geographical location of the connector of the hardware (example: enp2s0)
4. Names incorporating the interfaces's MAC address (example: enx78e7d1ea46da)
5. Classic, unpredictable kernel-native ethX naming (example: eth0)

Policy 4) is not used by default, but is available if the user chooses it.

Where can I disable policy 4? I don't know why it's enabled in first place. It appears that the firmware/BIOS did not provide index/location information for the Ethernet interface.

$ udevadm test-builtin net_id /sys/class/net/enx78e7d1ea46da 2> /dev/null
ID_NET_NAME_MAC=enx78e7d1ea46da
ID_OUI_FROM_DATABASE=Raspberry Pi Foundation

Solution

This issue is apparently caused by a bug in /lib/udev/rules.d/73-usb-net-by-mac.rules in versions prior to v233 of the debian and ubuntu udev packages.

The issue was fixed by this commit:

https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/pkg-systemd/systemd.git/commit/debian/extra/rules/73-usb-net-by-mac.rules?id=9e202a329175b0ca4eaa09a75897aa2044eb7d7a

See also:

https://askubuntu.com/questions/811295/73-usb-net-by-mac-rules-issue-with-net-ifnames/895879#895879

At the time of writing this v233 has not been released for Debian jessie.

One way to fix the issue locally is to edit the file in the same manner as the commit above, then reboot.

Comments

[fixer1234]

Can you explain how this relates to what was asked in the question and what it does? Thanks.