How to Set/Get UUID for a NIC

[Khemara Lyn]

Ok, thank you; it's that simple! I've thought about it in a harder way.

Regards,
Khem

On 01/09/2013 01:09 PM, Ed Greshko wrote:
> On 01/09/2013 10:55 AM, Khemara Lyn wrote:
>> Dear All,
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>> 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.
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>> 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.
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> Simply run uuidgen to create one
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