[CentOS] en01 network

[SilverTip257]

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


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