name : 85-nm-unmanaged.rules # Do not modify this file, it will get overwritten on updates. # To override or extend the rules place a file in /etc/udev/rules.d SUBSYSTEM!="net", GOTO="nm_unmanaged_end" ACTION!="add|change|move", GOTO="nm_unmanaged_end" # VirtualBox host networking. Out-of-tree driver that looks like an ordinary # Ethernet. No parent device (lives in /virtual/), no support for ethtool # to identify the driver, MAC address defaults to 08:00:27:, but can be # changed. Interface name will have to do, it's always vboxnet*. ENV{INTERFACE}=="vboxnet[0-9]*", ENV{NM_UNMANAGED}="1" # VMWare host networking. Out-of-tree driver that looks like an ordinary # Ethernet. No parent device (lives in /virtual/), no support for # ethtool to identify the driver. They have their own MAC prefix that # can not be changed. ATTR{address}=="00:50:56:*", ENV{INTERFACE}=="vmnet[0-9]*", ENV{NM_UNMANAGED}="1" # Parallels Workstation host networking. Out-of-tree driver that looks like # an ordinary Ethernet. No parent device (lives in /virtual/), no support for # ethtool to identify the driver and the interface name is too generic. # However, they have their own MAC prefix that can not be changed. ATTR{address}=="00:1c:42:*", ENV{INTERFACE}=="vnic[0-9]*", ENV{NM_UNMANAGED}="1" # Virtual Ethernet device pair. Often used to communicate with a peer interface # in another net namespace and managed by libvirt, Docker or the like. # Generally we don't want to mess with those. One exception would be the # full system containers, like LXC or LXD. LXC containers run via libvirt # don't use udev, so this doesn't apply. LXD does, though. To deal with the # LXD situation, let's treat the devices called eth* as regular ethernet. ENV{ID_NET_DRIVER}=="veth", ENV{INTERFACE}!="eth[0-9]*", ENV{NM_UNMANAGED}="1" # USB gadget device. Unmanage by default, since whatever created it # might want to set it up itself (e.g. activate an ipv4.method=shared # connection). ENV{DEVTYPE}=="gadget", ENV{NM_UNMANAGED}="1" LABEL="nm_unmanaged_end"