So, I've been looking into this systemd "Predictable Network Interface Names" for quite some time and got some understanding on how it works, but I can't for the love of Thor figure out the naming scheme with enpXsY, I know that it's supposed to indicate the physical location of the device, but what exactly does the X and Y mean? Which one is the physical location? What exactly does the other indicate, a bus index, perhaps? I have no idea and really want to know. I searched high and low and could find nothing explaining in detail how this naming scheme works.
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This is described in the man page systemd.net-naming-scheme in later systemd versions. en
means ethernet, p
means pci, X is the bus number, s
means slot, Y is the slot number.

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Thanks. For some reason that specific page escaped me. – sanosuke_kursch Sep 12 '21 at 16:57