[CentOS] Strange device labeling in 6.3

[m.roth at 5-cent.us]

Richard Reina wrote:
> If it's as simple as sticking the MAC address into the ifcfg-eth file,
> I can live with that. But only ifcfg script that exits in
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ is ifcfg-lo
>
> I have no idea what k3wl is.

Script-kiddie speak. 3 == e. I was being sarcastic (about the fedora
developers).
>
> Thanks for the replies.

There should be *something*. Sounds like something's missing in the
network part of your install.

       mark
>
>
> 2012/8/9, m.roth at 5-cent.us <m.roth at 5-cent.us>:
>> Scott Robbins wrote:
>>> On Thu, Aug 09, 2012 at 12:33:43PM -0500, Richard Reina 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.
>>
>>> 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.
>>
>> <method elided>
>>
>> EXCEPT that in 6.x, you really need to edit
>> /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistant-net.rules, too, or take the MAC out of
>> ifcfg-eth?, since it needs to be in 70-blahblah.
>>
>>        mark
>>
>>
>>>
>>> If you google Fedora biosdevname you'll come across various
>>> explanations.
>>> To change it back once the thing's been installed, I've always
>>> done it by first rpm -e biosdevname, then editing
>>> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-whatever, changing the device
>>> name in there to eth0, changing the name of the file, e.g, ifcfg-p4p1
>>> to
>>> ifcfg-eth0 and
>>> restarting.  I haven't gotten it working by just restarting networking,
>>> but at any rate, if you
>>> know you don't want it during installation, you can add biosdevname=0
>>> to
>>> the command line.
>>>
>>>
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