[CentOS] Renaming NIC name in CentOS 7

[Richer, Mark (CIV)]

Thanks to everyone who responded. This led to some interesting reading and learning, but it hasn’t avoided the reboot.

I found this page on udev:
How to reload udev rules without reboot?<http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/39370/how-to-reload-udev-rules-without-reboot>
http://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/39370/how-to-reload-udev-rules-without-reboot

Sounds perfect for my question, but at least one server I tried all the suggestions on, it didn’t change anything. A reboot is a “magic sauce,” but it’s nice to know how to avoid this with servers. If I find another solution that works for me, I’ll post it.

Mark

MARK H RICHER, MS CS
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On Oct 3, 2014, at 1:16 PM, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com<mailto:rgm at htt-consult.com>> wrote:


On 10/03/2014 12:38 PM, Darr247 wrote:
On 03 October 2014 @13:53 zulu, Digimer wrote:
On 03/10/14 09:12 AM, Richer, Mark (CIV) wrote:
All,

I am trying to understand better how you give an interface a more descriptive name and get it all working without a reboot, if possible.

I actually wrote a small tutorial on how to do just this.

https://alteeve.ca/w/Changing_Ethernet_Device_Names_in_EL7_and_Fedora_15%2B


I think you missed the "without a reboot" part.  :)

Supposedly you can restart udev and then networkservices


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