[CentOS] Strange device labeling in 6.3
Kahlil Hodgson
kahlil.hodgson at dealmax.com.au
Thu Aug 9 21:52:34 UTC 2012
On 10/08/12 03:33, Richard Reina wrote:
> I have just installed 6.3 on a machine that was previously running
> 5.8. Under 5.8 eth0 was eth0. Now with 6.3 /sbin/ifconfig gives me lo,
> wlan0 and p4p1 (instead of eth0). I would like to make the ethernet a
> static IP as I intend to for this to be machine used on my LAN only.
> However, when I do /usr/sbin/setup -> Network Configuration the device
> is not listed. Can anyone tell me why this is happening and how I can
> fix it. Or if not how I can set a static and persistent IP address for
> the ethernet?
try editing
/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules
change p4p1 to eth0 as the value for NAME
reboot
hope this helps
K
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