One of the teachers at school has declared that "eSports" will now be a Thing at school; his dream is that we thrash our arch-nemesis (more resourced [top ten most expensive schools in the country] and bigger [more pupils]) school across the valley during the annual inter-school sports day. Indeed, he even talked to the Headmaster about it, who was initially confused, but eventually gave it his (tentative!) blessing.
This then means we need to facilitate such things as "gaming"...
Friday, 15 September 2017
Thursday, 14 September 2017
Goodbye, eth0 - Hello enp4s0?!
Today, I got a small shock whilst installing a few services on a new Ubuntu Server 16 LTS (16.04.3) instance on an old HP Proliant server we had lying about not doing very much in order to do something more useful with it.
Whilst installing and configuring shorewall (my go-to iptables firewall management tool on Ubuntu), each time I started it, it just stopped all external connectivity, despite having it "correctly configured".
After a few moments, I thought to just check that I did indeed have an eth0 and ran ifconfig - lo and behold, the cryptically name enp4s0 was my Ethernet interface.
/etc/network/interfaces also had an entry for this cryptic new device and lo - but nothing else.
Whilst installing and configuring shorewall (my go-to iptables firewall management tool on Ubuntu), each time I started it, it just stopped all external connectivity, despite having it "correctly configured".
After a few moments, I thought to just check that I did indeed have an eth0 and ran ifconfig - lo and behold, the cryptically name enp4s0 was my Ethernet interface.
/etc/network/interfaces also had an entry for this cryptic new device and lo - but nothing else.
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| Wait. What happened to eth0? |
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