When upgrading to a newer version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the order of multiple network interface cards(NICs) may change when HWADDR is not specified within the ifcfg-eth* configuration files. How do I prevent the order of the network interface ...

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When upgrading to a newer version of Red Hat Enterprise Linux, the order of multiple network interface cards(NICs) may change when HWADDR is not specified within the ifcfg-eth* configuration files. How do I prevent the order of the network interface cards from changing?

If " HWADDR =" in /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth[0,1,2...] is not speicified before upgradi...

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