On Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 11:22 AM, SilverTip257 <silvertip257 at gmail.com> wrote: > On Sat, Oct 4, 2014 at 10:58 AM, Scott Robbins <scottro at nyc.rr.com> wrote: > >> On Sat, Oct 04, 2014 at 10:33:55AM -0400, Jerry Geis wrote: >> > I have installed CentOS 7. >> > I added "biosdevname=0 net.ifnames=0" at install time. >> > >> >> What I've done on Fedora for awhile now. >> >> I don't use NetworkManager, so if you are using it, I don't know, it does >> its own thing to network names. >> >> Also, I do this when I have physical access to the machine. >> >> First. >> >> rpm -e biosdevname (This should soon not be necessary, at least in >> Fedora) >> Then in /etc/default edit grub and add the net.ifnames=0 at the end of the >> kernel line. >> >> Then grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg which will put it into grub2. >> >> Next I go into /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts and name the ifcfg-* file >> accordingly, and also edit said file from it's if or biosdev name to >> eth-whatever. >> >> This has worked for me since Fedora began doing this. >> > > Wouldn't there be some configuration changes necessary in the udev net > rules? > I can't speak for EL7, but in the past I've had to tweak things there (as > well as network-scripts) when doing chassis and/or NIC swaps in servers. > I'm catching up on some mail I've not yet read, so ... In another thread on the date and thread name listed below, Digimer shared the following URL [0] to her guide. date: Fri, Oct 3, 2014 at 9:53 AMsubject: Re: [CentOS] Renaming NIC name in CentOS 7 [0] https://alteeve.ca/w/Changing_Ethernet_Device_Names_in_EL7_and_Fedora_15%2B [1] https://alteeve.ca/w/Digimer -- ---~~.~~--- Mike // SilverTip257 //