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 -- ======================================================================== Ian Pilcher arequipeno at gmail.com -------- "I grew up before Mark Zuckerberg invented friendship" -------- ========================================================================