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I received these new computers that use the "eno" network naming convention. But the application I am working with was expecting the "enp96s0f0" naming convention. I am trying to rename the ports but am getting this error:

Error either dev is a duplicate or "enp96s0f0" is a garbage

The way I am going about it is adding "net.ifnames=0 biosdevname=0" to GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX in /etc/default/grub. After updating grub and rebooting the network ports come up with the "eth" naming convention. Then I try to do this:

ip link set eth0 down
ip link set eth0 enp96s0f0

And I get the error. How can I get around this?

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    The convention is the same. eno* devices are attached to the motherboard, while enp devices are generally on an expansion card in a PCI* slot. I wouldn't bother renaming them; this will just cause you lots of grief later. (And even now.) Fix the application configuration instead. – Michael Hampton Jan 13 at 22:05
  • The thing is, the older versions of these computers had the "enp" naming convention on the motherboard. So that confuses me. – centosNetwork Jan 14 at 14:29
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I figured out what the problem was. All I wanted to do was change the name. I needed to use this syntax:

ip link set eth0 name enp96s0f0
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