From: Alwin Antreich via pve-user <pve-user@lists.proxmox.com>
To: "Proxmox VE user list" <pve-user@lists.proxmox.com>
Cc: Alwin Antreich <alwin@antreich.com>
Subject: Re: [PVE-User] Again (not) renaming interfaces...
Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2025 12:10:18 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <mailman.679.1759752626.390.pve-user@lists.proxmox.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <h722rl-bj51.ln1@leia.lilliput.linux.it>
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From: "Alwin Antreich" <alwin@antreich.com>
To: "Proxmox VE user list" <pve-user@lists.proxmox.com>
Subject: Re: [PVE-User] Again (not) renaming interfaces...
Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2025 12:10:18 +0000
Message-ID: <16f2c158a1e3a63e9986a14080a23c74b3c189a4@antreich.com>
Hi Marco,
October 2, 2025 at 12:54 PM, "Marco Gaiarin" <gaio@lilliput.linux.it mailto:gaio@lilliput.linux.it?to=%22Marco%20Gaiarin%22%20%3Cgaio%40lilliput.linux.it%3E > wrote:
>
> Some servers, all upgraded from PVE6 to PVE7 and then PVE8.
>
> Still i have some server Dell PowerEdge T440 that, sometime, not ever, fail
> to rename interfaces, some log:
>
> Oct 2 11:44:03 pppve2 (udev-worker)[891]: lo: Invalid network interface name, ignoring:
> Oct 2 11:44:03 pppve2 (udev-worker)[869]: eth1: Could not set AlternativeName= or apply AlternativeNamesPolicy=, ignoring: File exists
> Oct 2 11:44:03 pppve2 (udev-worker)[869]: ens1f1: Failed to rename network interface 3 from 'eth1' to 'ens1f1': File exists
> Oct 2 11:44:03 pppve2 (udev-worker)[869]: ens1f1: Failed to process device, ignoring: File exists
> Oct 2 11:44:03 pppve2 (udev-worker)[899]: eno1: Could not set AlternativeName= or apply AlternativeNamesPolicy=, ignoring: File exists
>
> clearly, ifup2 does not found ens1f1 and don't bind the interface to the
> bond.
>
> I need to check manually the bond:
>
> root@pppve2:~# mailto:root@pppve2:~# ip link | grep bond0
> 2: ens1f0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,SLAVE,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq master bond0 state UP mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
> 5: eno1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,SLAVE,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq master bond0 state UP mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
> 10: bond0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,MASTER,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue master vmbr0 state UP mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
> root@pppve2:~# mailto:root@pppve2:~# ip link | grep bond1
> 6: eno2: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,SLAVE,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq master bond1 state UP mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
> 12: bond1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,MASTER,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue master vmbr1 state UP mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
> root@pppve2:~# mailto:root@pppve2:~# ip link | grep bond2
> 4: ens5f0np0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,SLAVE,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 9000 qdisc mq master bond2 state UP mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
> 7: ens5f1np1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,SLAVE,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 9000 qdisc mq master bond2 state UP mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
> 9: bond2: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,MASTER,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 9000 qdisc noqueue state UP mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
>
> find missing interface:
>
> root@pppve2:~# mailto:root@pppve2:~# ip link | grep eth[0-9]
> 3: eth1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,SLAVE,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq master bond1 state UP mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
>
> and manually bind them:
>
> root@pppve2:~# mailto:root@pppve2:~# ip link set eth1 master bond1
> root@pppve2:~# mailto:root@pppve2:~# ip link | grep bond1
> 3: eth1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,SLAVE,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq master bond1 state UP mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
> 6: eno2: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,SLAVE,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc mq master bond1 state UP mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
> 12: bond1: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,MASTER,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue master vmbr1 state UP mode DEFAULT group default qlen 1000
>
> Why? It is better to fire up a bug?
>
No, that is the usual thing to do when upgrading. ;) Till PVE9 at least, the pinning tool should help you there.
https://pve.proxmox.com/pve-docs/pve-admin-guide.html#network_pin_naming_scheme_version
Cheers,
Alwin
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