[Users] Nic names : always start by eth0

Joop jvdwege at xs4all.nl
Wed Jul 31 07:44:13 UTC 2013


gregoire.leroy at retenodus.net wrote:
> I have an ovirt cluster which runs CentOS VM. I have a template to 
> create VM. On this template, there are two interfaces, eth0 and eth1.
> When I create a VM using this template, the new interfaces are named 
> eth2 and eth3. It can be pretty annoying and I would like to know if 
> it would be possible to always start by eth0 ?
>
> If I remember the discussion on IRC, it would be necessary to clean 
> old udev rules (in centos it seems to be 
> /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules)
Just use sys-unconfig which will wipe all machine specific data, like 
network/root pw/ and then make it into a template. On each clone the 
machine will need network/root pw/ etc.


Joop




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