Networking snippnet with new network style names

[William Muriithi]

Hello

I have been struggling attempting to get cobbler to work with RHEL6.
The problem is, RHEL 6.8 is coming up with the interface name as em1,
but somehow, the kickstart snippet below end up assigning the
interface the name eth0.  I have temporarily  commented the snippet as
show below and was able to have a successful installation after that.

# Network information
#$SNIPPET('network_config')
network --onboot no --device em1 --bootproto dhcp --noipv6
network --onboot no --device em2 --bootproto dhcp --noipv6

Have anybody been able to get cobbler working with interface names
like em1 or p3p1?   My problem is,  I have different hardware and
therefore don't have flexibility of hard coding the interface name in
the kickstart.  Any pointer would be highly appreciated

Regard,

William

[Santosh Kumar Gupta]

To stick to older device naming style we are passing 'biosdevname=0' kernel
parameter.

On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 9:31 AM, William Muriithi <
william.muriithi(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:

>  Hello
>
>  I have been struggling attempting to get cobbler to work with RHEL6.
>  The problem is, RHEL 6.8 is coming up with the interface name as em1,
>  but somehow, the kickstart snippet below end up assigning the
>  interface the name eth0.  I have temporarily  commented the snippet as
>  show below and was able to have a successful installation after that.
>
>  # Network information
>  #$SNIPPET('network_config')
>  network --onboot no --device em1 --bootproto dhcp --noipv6
>  network --onboot no --device em2 --bootproto dhcp --noipv6
>
>  Have anybody been able to get cobbler working with interface names
>  like em1 or p3p1?   My problem is,  I have different hardware and
>  therefore don't have flexibility of hard coding the interface name in
>  the kickstart.  Any pointer would be highly appreciated
>
>  Regard,
>
>  William
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[Santosh Kumar Gupta]

You can set this in cobbler setting also.
Find the 'kernel_options:' in settings file and add param 'biosdevname:
0'
Indent the parameter line properly.

On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 9:38 AM, Santosh Kumar Gupta <santosh0705(a)gmail.com&gt;
wrote:

>  To stick to older device naming style we are passing
> 'biosdevname=0'
>  kernel parameter.
>
>  On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 9:31 AM, William Muriithi <
>  william.muriithi(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
>
> > Hello
> >
> > I have been struggling attempting to get cobbler to work with RHEL6.
> > The problem is, RHEL 6.8 is coming up with the interface name as em1,
> > but somehow, the kickstart snippet below end up assigning the
> > interface the name eth0.  I have temporarily  commented the snippet as
> > show below and was able to have a successful installation after that.
> >
> > # Network information
> > #$SNIPPET('network_config')
> > network --onboot no --device em1 --bootproto dhcp --noipv6
> > network --onboot no --device em2 --bootproto dhcp --noipv6
> >
> > Have anybody been able to get cobbler working with interface names
> > like em1 or p3p1?   My problem is,  I have different hardware and
> > therefore don't have flexibility of hard coding the interface name in
> > the kickstart.  Any pointer would be highly appreciated
> >
> > Regard,
> >
> > William
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> > cobbler(a)lists.fedorahosted.org
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> >
>
>

[bishop]

.. and net.ifnames=0  ?

It certainly makes device naming consistent.

Santosh Kumar Gupta wrote:
> To stick to older device naming style we are passing 'biosdevname=0'
> kernel parameter.
> 
> On Tue, Sep 13, 2016 at 9:31 AM, William Muriithi
> <william.muriithi(a)gmail.com <mailto:[e-mail]>> wrote:
> 
>     Hello
> 
>     I have been struggling attempting to get cobbler to work with RHEL6.
>     The problem is, RHEL 6.8 is coming up with the interface name as em1,
>     but somehow, the kickstart snippet below end up assigning the
>     interface the name eth0.  I have temporarily  commented the snippet as
>     show below and was able to have a successful installation after that.
> 
>     # Network information
>     #$SNIPPET('network_config')
>     network --onboot no --device em1 --bootproto dhcp --noipv6
>     network --onboot no --device em2 --bootproto dhcp --noipv6
> 
>     Have anybody been able to get cobbler working with interface names
>     like em1 or p3p1?   My problem is,  I have different hardware and
>     therefore don't have flexibility of hard coding the interface name in
>     the kickstart.  Any pointer would be highly appreciated
> 
>     Regard,
> 
>     William
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[Thomas Hager]

Hi William,

cobbler takes the interface names from the system's configuration in cobbler. Check
the networking tab in the respective system's configuration dialog and rename the eth0
device to em1. 

Hth, 
Tom.

On September 13, 2016 6:01:41 AM GMT+02:00, William Muriithi
<william.muriithi(a)gmail.com&gt; wrote:
> Hello
>
> I have been struggling attempting to get cobbler to work with RHEL6.
> The problem is, RHEL 6.8 is coming up with the interface name as em1,
> but somehow, the kickstart snippet below end up assigning the
> interface the name eth0.  I have temporarily  commented the snippet as
> show below and was able to have a successful installation after that.
>
> # Network information
> #$SNIPPET('network_config')
> network --onboot no --device em1 --bootproto dhcp --noipv6
> network --onboot no --device em2 --bootproto dhcp --noipv6
>
> Have anybody been able to get cobbler working with interface names
> like em1 or p3p1?   My problem is,  I have different hardware and
> therefore don't have flexibility of hard coding the interface name in
> the kickstart.  Any pointer would be highly appreciated
>
> Regard,
>
> William
> _______________________________________________
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