Adding a NIC

Ed Greshko Ed.Greshko at greshko.com
Mon Apr 12 12:51:04 UTC 2010


On 04/12/2010 08:32 PM, Tom Horsley wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Apr 2010 14:34:38 +0300 (EEST)
> Gabriel VLASIU wrote:
>
>   
>> /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules
>>
>> Look for NAME="eth0", NAME="eth1".
>>     
> Ah, but this all gets very Alice In Wonderland. The
> names in the udev rules are the names of the "device",
> the names of the "interface" can be different.
>
> If you are using the traditional "network" interface
> then you may also need to fiddle the
> /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth* scripts
> to have the right names and point to the right
> hardware address.
>
> If you are using NetworkManager, God knows how to
> name the interfaces...
>   
I just added an NIC to one of my Virtual F12 instances which uses
NetworkManager.  It just added it in without fuss or muss.  It named it
eth1.  Isn't this how "easy" NM is supposed to be?  :-)

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