Receiving error "systemd-udevd: Error changing net interface name 'ens192' to 'enp11s0': File exists" on RHEL hosted in VMWare ESXi when using custom naming file
Issue
- Interface cannot be renamed by using NamePolicy
path
in a custom naming file. - We are using
/etc/systemd/network/99-default.link
to make naming policy to use path only, which has been working in 8.2, but it fail we step up on 8.6 systemd-udevd: could not rename interface '2' from 'ens192' to 'enp11s0': File exists
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL)
- 8
- vmxnet3
- VMWare ESXi
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