On 03/18/2011 08:44 AM, Patrick McNeil wrote:
> Good morning Jay,
>
> If you want to control and have persistent names for NIC's on Linux, the
> preferred method these days is udev (man udev).
>
> On an SLES system, we have entries like:
>
> SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*",
> ATTR{address}=="00:e0:ed:08:72:04", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*",
> NAME="eth1"
>
> for each NIC in the file /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules. You
> just have to match the MAC address with the name.
>
> The network configuration interface should create these lines for you,
> so you can simply edit the file and change the NAME. Do this from the
> console and reboot right after the edit, and do not use the network
> configuration interface afterwards, as it will overwrite your changes.
>
> The files may not be in the same place in Ubuntu but there is some
> information available if you google "ubuntu udev".
>
> Patrick
>
>
Patrick,
Thanks I will look into that.
Regards,
Jay
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