[CentOS] Kickstart with multiple eth devices
Ian Pilcher
arequipeno at gmail.com
Tue Feb 24 00:48:40 UTC 2015
On 02/23/2015 05:34 PM, Ashley M. Kirchner wrote:
> I have a Dell server that has two built-in ethernet devices. When I
> kickstart the machine, they are correctly identified as eth0 and eth1
> (correctly meaning they correspond to the physical device ports 1 and 2). I
> need a third one and want that to come up as eth2. After adding the
> hardware, kickstart now fails because for some reason it goes through a
> rename process where it makes the newly added card eth1 (or eth0, I
> forgot). Is there a way to stop this rename process so kickstart correctly
> uses the physical hardware the way they are, meaning physical port 1 =
> eth0, port 2 = eth1, and the additional ethernet card then becomes eth2?
What version of CentOS are you trying to install? I would expect that a
recent version would use the biosdevname interface naming scheme on a
Dell server.
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/Networking_Guide/sec-Consistent_Network_Device_Naming_Using_biosdevname.html
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