Upgrade to netplan, predict new interface name

[Tom H]

On Sat, Aug 3, 2019 at 6:40 PM Helmut Schneider <jumper99 at gmx.de> wrote:
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> I plan to upgrade 16.04 LTS to 18.04 LTS including netplan. Is
> there a way to predict the new interface names? I would like to
> prepare the yaml files to be able to ssh-in after the reboot.

If you rename your NICs via a udev rule in "/etc/udev/rules.d/*.rules"
and don't rename them to "ethX" or "wlanX", the NICs won't be renamed
when you upgrade.