Generating ifcfg-eth0 from scratch

[JB]

Alex <mysqlstudent <at> gmail.com> writes:

> ... 
> I understand the format, and could create it if necessary, but I'm
> specifically interested in knowing how it determines the UUID field?
> Is that calculated from lspci in some way perhaps?
> ...

In case you use NM:
http://www.mail-archive.com/networkmanager-list@gnome.org/msg17648.html

$ locate ifcfg-rh
/etc/dbus-1/system.d/nm-ifcfg-rh.conf
/usr/lib/NetworkManager/libnm-settings-plugin-ifcfg-rh.so

$ yum provides /etc/dbus-1/system.d/nm-ifcfg-rh.conf
$ yum provides /usr/lib/NetworkManager/libnm-settings-plugin-ifcfg-rh.so

JB