On Thu, May 1, 2014 at 1:55 PM, Steve Clark sclark@netwolves.com wrote:
Yep, do it all the time - first two thing I do are:
rm -f /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules rm -r /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth* and then reboot.
The above makes them be rediscovered on the reboot.
The lan ports are numbered on the back of the unit and I have never had them not come up in the correct order - In fact it would cause us untold grief it they did.
I forgot to add this is over 750 systems.
They must all appear on the same motherboard/card location. Mine stay the same order within a card but the cards motherboard sets jump around. And yes, it causes grief.