There are actually three Ethernet ports (eth0, eth1, and eth2). We use this method to kickstart many servers with the same configuration. The HWADDR is removed from the ifcfg-ethx files. Udev will process the files in the rules.d directory in order. The closest link I have found is http://sicherheitsschwankung.de/post/jan/2005-10-13/renaming-network-devices-udev. Also, I should point out we are using CentOS 5.5. -----Original Message----- From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On Behalf Of Les Mikesell Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2012 12:58 PM To: CentOS mailing list Subject: Re: [CentOS] EXTERNAL: Re: turning off udev for eth0 On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 7:58 AM, Massey, Ricky <ricky.massey at lmco.com> wrote: > We use the following from a kickstart script using the PCI bus location for the NICs: > > echo "ID==\"0000:04:04.0\", NAME=\"eth0\"" >> /etc/udev/rules.d/70-netrename.rules > echo "ID==\"0000:05:00.0\", NAME=\"eth1\"" >> /etc/udev/rules.d/70-netrename.rules > echo "ID==\"0000:05:01.0\", NAME=\"eth2\"" >> /etc/udev/rules.d/70-netrename.rules > That looks like what I need, but I don't understand it. Is there any documentation for how that stuff works, or can you elaborate? And if you do that, can you remove the HWADDR entries from the ifcfg-eth? files and have them stick to the right devices? -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell at gmail.com _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS at centos.org http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos