[CentOS] 70-persistent-net-rules

Fri Jul 13 20:46:58 UTC 2012
Digimer <lists at alteeve.ca>

On 07/13/2012 04:23 PM, Jerry Geis wrote:
> When my machine installs (CentOS 6.3) the two network cards are
> getting reversed.   The PCI card is getting eth0 and the motherboard is 
> getting eth1.
> I would like them in reverse order to keep things the same as they used 
> to be.
> 
> How can I easily tell these two to reverse?
> 
> Generate the 70-persistent-net-rules with motherboard eth0 first then 
> the PCI slot?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jerry

https://alteeve.com/w/Changing_the_ethX_to_Ethernet_Device_Mapping_in_EL6_and_Fedora_12%2B

In that, I edit the 70-persistent-net-rules file, but now I just remove
it. In short;

1. Stop networking
2. move HWADDR value between ifcfg-ethX files.
3. Delete 70-persistent-net-rules
4. Run; 'start_udev'
5. Start networking.

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