[CentOS] A question about 7

Tue Jan 14 23:37:22 UTC 2014
Scott Robbins <scottro at nyc.rr.com>

On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 02:57:20PM -0700, Warren Young wrote:
> On 1/14/2014 14:32, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote:
> >
> > configure can't
> > find the interface,
> 
> Were you aware that RHEL 7 now uses "Consistent Network Device Naming" 
> (http://goo.gl/Z0ydDF) in more situations?  It was optional in RHEL 6 
> (http://goo.gl/TiuTP9) but is all but enforced in RHEL 7.
> 
> Everyone, drop a tear for the dead "eth0".  <sniff>  We will miss you, eth0!

Haven't played much with it in CentOS.  In Fedora, at present, it is a bit
of pain as both biosdevname and systemd have something to do with it,
making it less consistent than ever. 

So, to remove it, one has to both run rpm -e biosdevname and add to
/etc/deafaults/grub kernel line net.ifnames=0.


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