[CentOS] No eth0 on centos 6.2

Thu Jan 5 02:18:16 UTC 2012
Scott Robbins <scottro at nyc.rr.com>

On Wed, Jan 04, 2012 at 07:22:11PM -0500, Digimer wrote:


> On 01/04/2012 06:52 PM, Jeff wrote:
> > Just installed centos 6.2.  I run and ifconfig -a I see and em1 
> > em2 and lo interface.  If I go to /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts, 
> > I don't see an ifcfg-eth0.  If I run ifup eth0 it comes back 
> > with "Device eth0 does not seem to be present, delaying 
> > initialization".  Anybody have a clue?  Thanks in advance.
> 
> The names of the devices are starting to change. The 'emX' are likely
> your interfaces. If you check you should have ifcfg-emX files. If you
> would like to rename them, you can follow this;
> 

Not sure about RH 6.x, but in Fedora 16 and up, one also should remove
the biosdevname package (rpm -e biosdevname) if they want to go back to
the ethX naming scheme.  

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/ConsistentNetworkDeviceNaming

and

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Talk:Features/ConsistentNetworkDeviceNaming


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