How to Set/Get UUID for a NIC

[Ed Greshko]

On 01/09/2013 10:55 AM, Khemara Lyn wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> Sorry if this had been covered before.
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> How can I set or get the UUID for a NIC? I have installed new system, initially with a single NIC; now I've added another NIC and would like to create a new UUID to be used in the new network-script file (e.g. ifcfg-em2).
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> I did some searches over Google and found related topics on hard disk partitions only (such as blkid /dev/sda1, ls -l /dev/disk/by_uuid); but none of the them covers the UUID for a NIC.
>
> I understand that, we can create a new network-script file without the UUID. However, i'm still curious of how it can be done.
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> Thanks in advance for any help or comment.
>
>

Simply run uuidgen to create one


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