docs: T3871: describe how interface names are assigned

2026-09-16T04:50:21+00:00

Names are no longer derived from the hw-id node. They are bound to the slot the hardware occupies and recorded in a mapping file, so document what decides a name, what happens when a card is replaced or added, and how to rename an interface. The troubleshooting page said to pin a MAC with hw-id when interfaces were renamed after a VM migration or a clone. That node no longer exists and the situation it describes no longer arises, so replace it with a pointer to the new section and a note on where to look when an interface really is missing.

feat: flip swap mechanism — MD as primary, RST as override (Phase 1)

2026-05-06T17:42:32+00:00

This is the first of three phases inverting the per-page swap mechanism so MD becomes the canonical primary and RST becomes the rare override. Phase 1 — file renames + conf.py exclude_patterns flip only: - Rename docs/**/md-.md to docs/**/.md (drop md- prefix) for all 254 stems previously listed in docs/_swap.txt - Rename docs/**/.rst to docs/**/rst-.rst (add rst- prefix) for the same 254 stems - Repurpose docs/_swap.txt as docs/_rst_overrides.txt; initially empty comment-only since no pages need the RST fallback right now - conf.py exclude_patterns flipped: rst-*.rst is now excluded by default instead of md-*.md - conf.py runtime-artifact references updated to _rst_override_state.json and _md_exclude.txt (Phase 2 will rewrite swap_sources.py to produce these names; for now no swap script runs because overrides list is empty) Phase 2 (next commit on this branch) will rewrite scripts/swap_sources.py with inverted rename direction, delete scripts/import_myst.py + tests, and update tests/test_swap_sources.py for the new semantics. Phase 3 will be the cleanup pass and ready-for-review flip. Generated by robots https://vyos.io

vyos-documentation.git/docs/troubleshooting/interfaces.md, branch T3871-ifname-store

docs: T3871: describe how interface names are assigned

feat: flip swap mechanism — MD as primary, RST as override (Phase 1)