On Sun, Aug 31, 2014 at 1:56 PM, Digimer lists@alteeve.ca wrote:
This is something of a loaded question and also quite dependent on what you are doing. If the server is very critical, I would probably wait until 7.1 or 7.2. If the server is not very critical, then sure, use EL7 and start learning it (and report bugs! :) ).
It's not critical, just a development server I'll like to configure in order to start learn a bit CentOS 7 (I'm not a System Administrator expert but a developer)
If 'ifconfig -a' doesn't see it, the kernel probably doesn't, either. Do you see it in lspci or dmidecode? If not, I would look at the hypervisor for a problem.
As I said above I'm not a expert but I did "man dmidecode" since lspci isn't available and I can't find a TYPE for see network interfaces also I do not know if the output is related to motherboard (the one I have) or is related to emulated board (if this has sense), so what command should I run to give you proper info?
Yes you can do it without rebooting, but it still requires taking the network down.
I wrote this a while ago:
https://alteeve.ca/w/Changing_Ethernet_Device_Names_in_EL7_and_Fedora_15%2B
It probably needs to be updated/cleaned up, but it should be good enough to help you.
I'll take a look in a few minutes after system updates complete