On Wed, May 27, 2015 at 1:37 AM, Frank Even <lists+centos.org at elitists.org> wrote: > tl;dr - a renamed dummy interface is not persisting across reboots on Cent6. > > I have a situation where I need to rename a dummy interface on my system. > > I have a total of 3 dummy interfaces: > > dummy0 > dummy1 > adummy0 > > I've been doing some puppet testing in a vbox VM to get this all > sorted out to deploy to a group of boxes. Every time I reboot my VM, > it comes up WITHOUT adummy0, but I notice there is now an unconfigured > dummy2. > > I've tried everything from adding aliases to > /etc/modprobe.d/dummyopts.conf to renaming the interface via "ip" (ip > link set dummy2 name adummy0). This is all fine during use, even > during a network restart. But as soon as I restart the VM, it comes > back up broken. > > I for the life of me have been unable to figure out why. I could use > some help in narrowing down why this won't persist across reboots. I > can write a startup script to deal with it, but it doesn't seem like a > good solution. > > Thanks, > Frank Anybody have any insights?