diff --git a/plugins/guests/arch/cap/configure_networks.rb b/plugins/guests/arch/cap/configure_networks.rb
index 299e86410..ada7ae7cb 100644
--- a/plugins/guests/arch/cap/configure_networks.rb
+++ b/plugins/guests/arch/cap/configure_networks.rb
@@ -1,3 +1,4 @@
+# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
 require "tempfile"
 
 require "vagrant/util/template_renderer"
@@ -18,20 +19,23 @@ module VagrantPlugins
             temp.write(entry)
             temp.close
 
-            # Only consider nth line of sed's output below. There certainly is a
-            # better way to do this
-            snth = network[:interface] + 1
-
             machine.communicate.upload(temp.path, "/tmp/vagrant_network")
             machine.communicate.sudo("mv /tmp/vagrant_network /etc/netctl/eth#{network[:interface]}")
 
-            # A hack not to rely on udev rule 80-net-name-slot.rules masking:
-            # ln -sf /dev/null /etc/udev/80-net-name-slot.rules that
+            # Only consider nth line of sed's output below. There's always an
+            # offset of two lines in the below sed command given the current
+            # interface number -> 1: lo, 2: nat device,
+            snth = network[:interface] + 2
+
+            # A hack not to rely on udev rule 80-net-name-slot.rules masking
+            # (ln -sf /dev/null /etc/udev/80-net-name-slot.rules).
             # I assume this to be the most portable solution because
             # otherwise we would need to rely on the Virtual Machine implementation
             # to provide details on the configured interfaces, e.g mac address
-            # to write a custom udev rule.
-            machine.communicate.sudo("sed -i s/eth#{network[:interface]}/`systemctl list-units -t device | sed -n 's/.*subsystem.net-devices-\\(.*\\).device.*/\\1/p' | sed -n #{snth}p`/g /etc/netctl/eth#{network[:interface]}")
+            # to write a custom udev rule. Templating the netcfg files and
+            # replacing the correct interface name within ruby seems more
+            # complicted too (I'm far from being a ruby expert though).
+            machine.communicate.sudo("sed -i \"s/eth#{network[:interface]}/`ip link | sed -n 's/.*:\\s\\(.*\\): <.*/\\1/p' | sed -n #{snth}p`/g\" /etc/netctl/eth#{network[:interface]}")
             machine.communicate.sudo("netctl start eth#{network[:interface]}")
           end
         end