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Light At The End Of The Tunnel

systems administration meanderings

Network card order RHEL/CentOS 6

In RHEL/CentOS 5 this was handled by /etc/modprobe.conf. Now in RHEL/CentOS 6 this is now handled by udev. The file that controls everything is /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules An example of how this file looks is shown below:- # PCI device 0x14e4:0x164c (bnx2) (custom name provided by external tool) SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?", ATTR{address}=="00:19:b9:f2:d4:f7", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth", NAME="eth1" # PCI device 0x8086:0x10d6 (igb) (custom name provided by external tool) SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?", ATTR{address}=="00:1b:21:0c:2a:70", ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth", NAME="eth2" # PCI device 0x8086:0x10d6 (igb) (custom name provided by external tool) SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="? Read more →