Is there a way to stop device addresses from changing? By device address, I am referring to the address displayed by lspci. This is used for addressing all sorts of devices, including network interfaces and graphics cards.
For example, according to lspci my network device is at 0d:00.0. If I remove my PCI-E USB card from the computer, the device is not at 0c:00.0. This changes the network port from enp13s0 to enp12s0, which breaks the static IP setup and prevents the network from coming up during boot. I have to manually edit the network configuration and update the address.
This wouldn't be that big of a deal, especially since I don't add or remove devices very often, but I pass a number of devices through to my VMs and anytime the addresses change I have to make a lot of manual edits.
Is there a way to tell Ubuntu remember that this device should always have this address, and give new devices a later address? I realize that this may be impossible - I don't know how the addresses are determined. Thanks!
