[CentOS] Renaming NIC name in CentOS 7

Sun Oct 5 20:17:05 UTC 2014
George Kontostanos <gkontos.mail at gmail.com>

I really don't get it. Why get into so much fuss just to rename your
interfaces????

On Sun, Oct 5, 2014 at 5:18 PM, Eliezer Croitoru <eliezer at ngtech.co.il>
wrote:

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> Hey Mark,
>
> You can use "ip" tools to do the trick.
> For Ubuntu I wrote this upstart script that helps with it without
> touching udev.
> You can see it here:
> http://www1.ngtech.co.il/paste/1175/
>
> You can run this function at runtime and it will change the interface
> name.
>
> On CentOS you will need to find the right "spot" in boot to apply this
> link.
> Before NetworkManager and after udev.
>
> All The Bests,
> Eliezer
>
> On 10/03/2014 04:12 PM, 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.
> >
> > We have 1G and 10G interfaces, and I’m trying to use names like
> > 1G-internal, 1G-external, 10G-private, etc.  When I boot up, it’s
> > all fine, but if I add one I’m not sure if there is a way to avoid
> > the reboot? For example, I added the 10G interface names this
> > week.
> >
> > Specifically, is there a way to change the network interface name
> > you see in ifconfig and nmcli connection without rebooting CentOS
> > 7?
> >
> > I changed the name in network-scripts. I tried to restart
> > NetworkManager.
> >
> > I brought down the interface and tried to rename the file and bring
> > it up again, but it still retains the previous run-time setting
> > associated with the same UUID in the file.
> >
> > Also I find that on all but one of the server on which I did this,
> > I can restart NetworkManager, but network.service is failing to
> > restart. Do I want both active? And if yes,  is this indicative of
> > a problem related to changing the interfaces that goes away (only)
> > by rebooting? For some reason, after doing this on several systems,
> > on only one I can restart network.service, but it also still shows
> > the old interface name.
> >
> > thanks, Mark
> >
> > MARK H RICHER, MS CS NPS-NCR Digital Forensics Lab IT Manager
> > Computer Science Department Naval Postgraduate School - National
> > Capital Region (NCR) 900 N Glebe Rd, Rm 5-182, Arlington, VA 22203
> > 571.858.3254 (o) 571.303.9498 (m)
> > mhricher at nps.edu<mailto:mhricher at nps.edu>
> >
> >
> >
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George Kontostanos
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