[CentOS] Using eth0 on desktops with single network interface

Thu Apr 19 20:48:59 UTC 2012
Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com>

On Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 2:35 PM, Al Sparks <data345 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>
> This has piqued my curiosity.  I haven't seen that behavior before, and
> I've done some recent installs of CentOS 6.0.
>
> I use yum to upgrade them to CentOS 6.2.  Maybe that's why....
>
> But all my interfaces are named eth*.
>

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.

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  Les Mikesell
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