Re: Revisiting Cent 8

2020-03-17 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 6:58 PM David Sommerseth wrote: > > On 17/03/2020 19:51, James M. Pulver wrote: > > I mostly hate the new network names, and I generally find that they're > > fixing something that was never broken for us, but I imagine there was some > > way you could get your eth*

Re: Revisiting Cent 8

2020-03-17 Thread David Sommerseth
On 17/03/2020 19:51, James M. Pulver wrote: > I mostly hate the new network names, and I generally find that they're > fixing something that was never broken for us, but I imagine there was some > way you could get your eth* interfaces confused on reboot I guess. Strange > that the latest vyos

Re: Revisiting Cent 8

2020-03-17 Thread Steve Rikli
On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 12:38:11PM -0400, Larry Linder wrote: > ... > I looked at all the pages of directions on the internet and Cent pages > for a way to change the IP to a range that is used for our boxes. When > you run ifconfig -a you see the configuration and no eth0 or eth1 but > you find

Re: Revisiting Cent 8

2020-03-17 Thread Teh, Kenneth M.
I actually like the enp3s0 naming convention. It maps directly to the pci addresses. For instance, an 'lspci' shows my ethernet controller at > 00:19.0 Ethernet controller: Intel Corporation 82579LM Gigabit Network > Connection (Lewisville) (rev 04) The 00:19.0 translates to enp0s25. 00 is p0,

Re: Revisiting Cent 8

2020-03-17 Thread Nico Kadel-Garcia
On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 1:02 PM Larry Linder <0dea520dd180-dmarc-requ...@listserv.fnal.gov> wrote: > > Boss asked us to take another look at Cent 8 because Cent 8 box in > corner was using an IP address that is in middle of several machine > tools. > > It had been running since oct 19 and we

Re: Revisiting Cent 8

2020-03-17 Thread Alec Habig
Konstantin Olchanski writes: > No alternative desktop is very bad. Ubuntu has: gnome, mate, cinnamon, > kde, lxde (I think), maybe a few more. I haven't tried CentOS 8 yet to verify, but as it is essentially a fork of Fedora (where I use kde all the time), you should just be able to install KDE

Re: Revisiting Cent 8

2020-03-17 Thread James M. Pulver
I mostly hate the new network names, and I generally find that they're fixing something that was never broken for us, but I imagine there was some way you could get your eth* interfaces confused on reboot I guess. Strange that the latest vyos which is a router distro designed for lots of

Re: [SCIENTIFIC-LINUX-USERS] Revisiting Cent 8

2020-03-17 Thread Jose Marques
> On 17 Mar 2020, at 16:38, Larry Linder > <0dea520dd180-dmarc-requ...@listserv.fnal.gov> wrote: > > When > you run ifconfig -a you see the configuration and no eth0 or eth1 but > you find enp3s0: This has been the case since well before Centos 8 came out. The eth* devices were replaced by

Re: Revisiting Cent 8

2020-03-17 Thread Konstantin Olchanski
On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 12:38:11PM -0400, Larry Linder wrote: > Boss asked us to take another look at Cent 8 because Cent 8 box in > corner was using an IP address that is in middle of several machine > tools. Typical situation here, too. Mystery box using mystery IP address. To fix. > > When

Re: Revisiting Cent 8

2020-03-17 Thread Teh, Kenneth M.
ifconfig is going away...use ip instead. In this case 'ip addr' The way to set static addresses is to use nmcli conn edit . The connection names are given by 'nmcli conn show'. You want to alter the ipv4.'s. I don't have my notes with me but off the top of head you want to change

Revisiting Cent 8

2020-03-17 Thread Larry Linder
Boss asked us to take another look at Cent 8 because Cent 8 box in corner was using an IP address that is in middle of several machine tools. It had been running since oct 19 and we gave up on it at end of December as basically worthless. I looked at all the pages of directions on the internet