add "net.ifnames=0" to GRUB config file /etc/default/grub GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX_DEFAULT="quiet splash net.ifnames=0" #GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX="net.ifnames=0" #optional sudo update-grub sudo reboot OR systemctl reboot after reboot you may see instead of enp0s3 (or similar) again the eth0: ifconfig check results after reboot: cat /proc/cmdline More reading at https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/systemd/PredictableNetworkInterfaceNames/