[CentOS] Using eth0 on desktops with single network interface
Lars Hecking
lhecking at users.sourceforge.net
Fri Apr 20 08:21:59 UTC 2012
> I think it is still only for certain Dell models and it probably only
> works with new 6.2 installs, but it is a badly needed capability to be
> able to predictably map the device/config names to the matching
> physical NICs.
I was wondering about this because the T3500 I'm setting up with fresh
6.2 installs have eth0.
The whitepaper linked here
http://linux.dell.com/biosdevname/
explains it in detail, and indeed the T3500 is listed as not supporting
under RHEL6.1 SMBIOS version is 2.5 according dmidecode and they say
2.6 is required.
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