Interfaces are not persistent across reboots on RHEL7+ when net.ifnames=0 is set or eth names are used
Issue
- Interface names do not always match the same physical port on each reboot
- After a reboot, the interface names no longer match the same devices that they used earlier, even though
HWADDR
is set and70-peristent-net.rules
is also set
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 7
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 8
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) 9
net.ifnames=0
present in/proc/cmdline
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