Whonix Gateway CLI-15.0.1.5.4 and Debian 10.9 as Workstation - Network issues

[Patrick]

Better to use Disable Predictable Network Interface Names instead?

References:

Whonix/whonix-gw-network-conf/blob/master/debian/whonix-gw-network-conf.links

Whonix 14.0.0.0.7 developers-only

IIRC you reported something to upstream on these lines? That was ifupdown in wheezy or so that did not fail closed when the pre hook (that we set to Whonix firewall) failed or so, not systemd-networkd. Is systemd guaranteed air-tight for failing closed and not leaking packets? Getting a network card up is not a that complex task. Theoretically it could have bugs such as using dhcp even if configured to use static networking. The conservative approach is to stay with ifupdown since it’s l…

zless /usr/share/doc/udev/README.Debian.gz | cat

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Instructions would suggest instead:

sudo ln -s /dev/null /etc/systemd/network/99-default.link
sudo update-initramfs -u

And perhaps reboot.

Untested.

Advantages: closer to Whonix-Workstation configuration. Easier. “Actually” predictable network interface names (at lest inside VMs).