[pve-devel] [PATCH installer v3 00/15] support network interface name pinning

Thomas Lamprecht t.lamprecht at proxmox.com
Tue Nov 11 16:04:54 CET 2025


Am 11.11.25 um 15:00 schrieb Christoph Heiss:
> This series adds support for pinning the names of network interfaces
> directly during the installation, for all of GUI, TUI and auto-installer.

thanks for this!

> There are also some smaller clean-ups and quality-of-life improvements
> interspersed - to keep the patches for each part of the installer
> together - in the series, which can also be applied
> separately/beforehand if wanted.
> 
> Tested all combinations, i.e. for each of GUI, TUI and auto-installer,
> installed with pinning disabled (checking for regressions) and with
> pinning enabled at some custom interface names set.
What I noticed on smoke-testing the GTK UI: UX wise it would be nice to
detect duplicate names early, i.e., on closing the "option" window used
to configure pinned names manually.

But if it's just that, it's probably best done as follow-up.






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