[CentOS] Disappearing Network Manager config scripts

[Steve Clark]

On 04/30/2014 02:16 PM, Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 30, 2014 at 1:02 PM, Steve Clark <sclark at netwolves.com> wrote:
>> You do know that windows servers have a fairly complete set of command
>> line options, don't you?
>>
>> Well the one and only time I configured an interface on windows from the
>> command line I couldn't believe I had to type
>> some great big string to identify the interface, of course I had looked up
>> how to do it on the internet so there may
>> have been a shorter way to do it.
> So, have you ever had to deal with a CentOS box and multiple NICs.
> Especially one where you've cloned it or moved a disk to a new
> chassis?   Apparently there is just not a good way to identify
> interfaces.
Yep, do it all the time - first two thing I do are:
rm -f /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules
rm -r /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth*
and then reboot.

>
>> I guess coming from a history of starting out on an IBM 1130 and proceeding
>> thru Burroughs, NCR and Data General OSes and hardware
>> I just got used to understanding at a very low level and doing things
>> without the help of some fancy GUI.
> Well, you can do it that way on windows if you want.  It's just, ummm,
> different.  Like that thing we were talking about here.
>


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