On Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 10:58 AM, Scott Robbins <scottro@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 04, 2014 at 10:33:55AM -0400, Jerry Geis wrote:
> > I have installed CentOS 7.
> > I added "biosdevname=0 net.ifnames=0" at install time.
> >
>
> What I've done on Fedora for awhile now.
>
> I don't use NetworkManager, so if you are using it, I don't know, it does
> its own thing to network names.
>
> Also, I do this when I have physical access to the machine.
>
> First.
>
> rpm -e biosdevname (This should soon not be necessary, at least in Fedora)
> Then in /etc/default edit grub and add the net.ifnames=0 at the end of the
> kernel line.
>
> Then grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg which will put it into grub2.
>
> Next I go into /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts and name the ifcfg-* file
> accordingly, and also edit said file from it's if or biosdev name to
> eth-whatever.
>
> This has worked for me since Fedora began doing this.
>
Wouldn't there be some configuration changes necessary in the udev net
rules?
I can't speak for EL7, but in the past I've had to tweak things there (as
well as network-scripts) when doing chassis and/or NIC swaps in servers.
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