Persistent Naming in Rhel 6 and 7 as a Quick Guide
Issue
- I want to change the interface naming without breaking my terminal access on Rhel 7 with Network Manager
- How to setup persistent naming so that the nic names and macaddress don't change.
- In Rhel 6 my network interfaces are being renamed to rename5
serverName kernel: udev: renamed network interface eth3 to rename5
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- NetworkManager-1.4.0-12.el7.x86_64
- udev-147-2.73.el6_8.2.x86_64 +
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