[CentOS] Strange device labeling in 6.3
Nate Duehr
denverpilot at me.com
Fri Aug 10 14:15:29 UTC 2012
On Aug 9, 2012, at 7:43 PM, Kahlil Hodgson <kahlil.hodgson at dealmax.com.au> wrote:
> On 10/08/12 09:18, Reindl Harald wrote:
>> and that is why i use /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules to
>> pin device-name / MAC and no mac-address in ifconfig-scripts since
>> many years
>
> +1
>
> Alternatively, with the biosdevname, you can pin the interface name to
> the pci(e) slot. That way its a trivial exercise to get 'remote hands'
> to swap out a dead nic -- no need to fiddle with the mac address.
And if you don't...
Doing remote hands to swap a bad NIC with someone non-Linux qualified in another country, just became the seriously sucky part of your day. BTDT. Got the t-shirt.
Nate
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