On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 1:47 PM, <m.roth at 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. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com