After updating a virtual machine, network interface(s) are not working.

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Issue

  • After updating a VMWare guest, eth0 does not work.
  • On RHEL 5 only loopback interface is shown - all our eth devices are missing altogether when we run ifconfig -a

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5
  • VMWare Guest

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