On Tue, Sep 03, 2013 at 02:02:08PM +0100, Steve Brooks wrote:
>
> > You don't actually need hwaddr in your ifcfg-* files -- though it's
> > probably not a bad thing to have the MAC in there. [As Scott pointed out,
> > it's all about what udev has in its rules.]
> >
> >
> >>
> >> You also have to look at /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules
> >>
>
> I am using "centos 5" and it seems the "udev" cam in with e16 ... So can't
> go that way..
Cursory googling indicates that you can create the file (and directories if
needed). The line in there would read something like
SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*",
ATTR{address}=="XX:XX:XX:XX:XX:XX", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*",
NAME="eth0"
with XX:XX etc being the hardware address. It's all on one line and
quotation marks are used as shown.
All this is untested by me on CentOS 5.x
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Scott Robbins
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