CentOS - May 2016 - Redefine ethX interface names in CentOS 5.11?

Hi,

I have a LAN server running CentOS 5.11 with two NICs eth0 and eth1. I'd
like to swap the interface names, but I don't know how to go about that
under CentOS.

Here's what I would do on a Slackware server (I have one next to me in
my office).

Open /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules and edit it:

# PCI device 0x8086:/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:04.0/0000:03:00.0
(e1000e)
SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*",
ATTR{address}=="00:22:64:8a:4c:c2", ATTR{dev_id}=="0x0",
ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*", NAME="eth1"

# PCI device 0x8086:/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/0000:02:00.0
(e1000e)
SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add", DRIVERS=="?*",
ATTR{address}=="2c:27:d7:15:54:a1", ATTR{dev_id}=="0x0",
ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*", NAME="eth0"

To swap interfaces, I simply have to switch the respective NAME="ethX"
attributes and restart the server.

How would you do something similar on a machine running CentOS 5.11?

Cheers,

Niki
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Nicolas Kovacs wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I have a LAN server running CentOS 5.11 with two NICs eth0 and eth1.
I'd
> like to swap the interface names, but I don't know how to go about that
> under CentOS.
>
> Here's what I would do on a Slackware server (I have one next to me in
> my office).
>
> Open /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules and edit it:
>
> # PCI device 0x8086:/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:04.0/0000:03:00.0
> (e1000e)
> SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add",
DRIVERS=="?*",
> ATTR{address}=="00:22:64:8a:4c:c2",
ATTR{dev_id}=="0x0",
> ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*", NAME="eth1"
>
> # PCI device 0x8086:/sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.0/0000:02:00.0
> (e1000e)
> SUBSYSTEM=="net", ACTION=="add",
DRIVERS=="?*",
> ATTR{address}=="2c:27:d7:15:54:a1",
ATTR{dev_id}=="0x0",
> ATTR{type}=="1", KERNEL=="eth*", NAME="eth0"
>
> To swap interfaces, I simply have to switch the respective
NAME="ethX"
> attributes and restart the server.
>
> How would you do something similar on a machine running CentOS 5.11?
Have you tried swapping the HWADDR lines in 
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 and ifcfg-eth1 ?

No idea if will work ...

James Pearson

Le 27/05/2016 ? 12:44, James Pearson a ?crit :
> Have you tried swapping the HWADDR lines in
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 and ifcfg-eth1 ?
> 
> No idea if will work ...
I gave it a try. Worked like a charm.

Thanks very much.

Niki

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