On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 1:47 PM, m.roth@5-cent.us 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?
Well......
I tend to agree with the slashdot commentator who called it overcomplicated and unnecessary. It's another idea from
Yup. The difference between that, and sticking the MAC address into a simple, existing config file is, oh, that's right, it's k3wl.
The difference _should_ be that you could ship a pre-installed disk to a remote site where it meets up with an freshly shipped server chassis and the on-site person racking it up can know which NIC to put which cable in and have it come up working. But, I think that's only possible with Dells.
Fedora, the theory, IIRC, was that this way, devices would always have the same name, whereas under the method that has been used device names could change on a reboot. (Haven't experienced that myself, but dunno).
I have. Putting the MAC address into ifcfg-eth? fixes it.
That assumes that you know the MAC address at the time you'd like to configure the image. That's rare for me. As are on-site people fluent in linux.