I am running a Fedora 21 workstation, and I am trying to run Schrodinger software package which requires a license and a ‘flexnet’ type of license manager. The issue is that the it expects to bind with ethXX which we all know is not the
default naming convention any more. Great, ok, I google and fine some tips about renaming:
1)
append "net.ifnames=0 biosdevname=0" to /etc/default/grub GRUB_COMMAND_LINUX (doesn’t seem to have any affect)
2)
ln -s /dev/null /etc/udev/rules.d/80-net-name-slot.rules (which doesn’t exist on my system)
3)
/etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules (file doesn’t exist, in fact /etc/udev/rules.d is completely empty)
4)
Removing biosdevname (which of course doesn’t exist on this system)
and of course renaming the config files and changing the ‘Name’ in the files. I reboot, and no matter what I do it refuses to work, ifconfig still lists the old device names, and ‘ifconfig eth0’ fails and complains that the device doesn’t
exist.
Any known good working solutions or a direction to try?
Thanks in advance
Michael
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