Persistent Network Naming in Rhel 6 and 7 as a Quick Guide

Solution Verified - Updated -

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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