Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 sustainable NIC naming approach
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The problem with NIC names on any RHEL6 release is that the order of assigning part of the name by the OS kernel is unpredictable and not guaranteed. It honors the "first come, first served" approach.
How the NIC gets its OS kernel name
Any NIC on a Linux based OS needs to have a properly initialized driver for it to work properly.
It does not matter if the driver is buil...
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