onboard NIC eno1

[Gisbert Haas]

Hallo All,

I have a proprietary application running on Debian9 with hardcoded NIC "eno1".
If I would like to use virtualization I need to have the NIC show up as onboard NIC so systemd will name it eno1.
I dont have access to the OS Debian9 to change anything.
is there a way to have the Bios report the NIC as onboad eno1?

Thanks a lot

[Jonathan A. Kollasch]

On Thu, Jan 02, 2020 at 08:44:51PM +0000, Gisbert Haas wrote:
> Hallo All,
>
> I have a proprietary application running on Debian9 with hardcoded NIC "eno1".
> If I would like to use virtualization I need to have the NIC show up as onboard NIC so systemd will name it eno1.
> I dont have access to the OS Debian9 to change anything.
> is there a way to have the Bios report the NIC as onboad eno1?
>
> Thanks a lot

Yes, look into the ACPI _DSM instance number and/or the DMI/SMBIOS Type 41
record.

Jonathan

[Gisbert Haas]

Dear Jonathan,

thanks a lot for the information.
I'm not an expert in this field. Can you share some more details what I would need todo or where I can read up on it?

Thanks
Gisbert

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On Thu, Jan 02, 2020 at 08:44:51PM +0000, Gisbert Haas wrote:
> Hallo All,
>
> I have a proprietary application running on Debian9 with hardcoded NIC "eno1".
> If I would like to use virtualization I need to have the NIC show up as onboard NIC so systemd will name it eno1.
> I dont have access to the OS Debian9 to change anything.
> is there a way to have the Bios report the NIC as onboad eno1?
>
> Thanks a lot

Yes, look into the ACPI _DSM instance number and/or the DMI/SMBIOS Type 41
record.

Jonathan