IBM POWER-LE LPAR had eth0 and eth1 network interfaces swap around on reboot
Issue
- IBM POWER-LE LPAR had
eth0
andeth1
network interfaces swap around on reboot - This only happens with RHEL 7, on RHEL 8 the network names are different like
ens1p0
Environment
- Red Hat Enterprise Linux 7
- IBM POWER Little Endian (
ppc64le
) architecture- IBM POWER8
- IBM POWER8 emulated on POWER9
ibmveth
network interfaces
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