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I'm not using systemd-networkd but have a /etc/systemd/network/10-eth0.link like:

[Match]
MACAddress=FA:16:3E:77:9E:83

[Link]
Name=eth0

in order to get the interface named the way I like it.

When setting an image up the first time, the MAC isn't set (correctly) so I get the default iface naming schema.

Even after quite intensive searching I found no way (that really always works) that allows to rename the interfaces according to these config files, while the system is running.

Some resources on the web said that:

udevadm trigger --verbose --subsystem-match=net --action=add

would do this, but that doesn't always seem to work.

So right now I simply always reboot.

networkctl(1) mentions the reconfigure action, but that anyway works only when systemd-networkd is used.

Could you please document (I guess in systemd.network(5)) how this can be done?

Tanks,
Chris.

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The systemd version you checked that didn't have the feature you are asking for

252.5