Re: [cobbler] Cobbler System Network Configuration

[Orion Poplawski]

On 04/22/2015 01:20 AM, Hrishikesh wrote:
>  Hi All,
>  
>  I am building an RHEL 7 instance using cobbler.
>  
>  I am facing a problem related to network configuration for a system defined in
>  cobbler web interface.
>  
>  I have defined an interface named eth0 in cobbler web interface for the system.
>  
>  When I build using koan, it creates 2 interfaces with names eth0 and ensXX.
>  And the ip address for both is same and is the one that mentioned in cobbler
>  web interface for eth0.
>  
>  Any idea how to restrict the creation of ensXX interface ?
>  
>  Thanks,
>  Hrishikesh 
I think we need a FAQ on this subject.

You can add net.ifnames=0 to the kernel options to prevent systemd from
renaming the interface.

It would also be nice if cobbler could better handle dynamic interface names.

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