[rhelv6-list] RHEL 6.4 udev just butchered my ethernet device names!

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Fri Feb 22 22:59:14 UTC 2013


On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 4:41 PM, Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 (Santiago)
discussion mailing-list <rhelv6-list at redhat.com> wrote:

> On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 6:01 PM, bjs wrote:
> > I'm going to look up the "biosdevname" and related package BZs and get
> > the full story, if there is one.
> >
> > I know upstream Fedora switched to the new nomenclature awhile back
> > (and "biodevname" does seem to be installed on all of my Fedora
> > systems).  But as I mentioned before, RHEL6 does not, and I'm ignorant
> > of the logic whenever it may (Customer opt-in?  Anaconda detection of
> > select OEM hardware?  Other?).
>
> It's definitely customer opt-in . The RHEL 6.1 release notes say :
>
>
> https://access.redhat.com/knowledge/docs/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html-single/6.1_Release_Notes/index.html#idp82636784
>
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.1 introduces biosdevname, an optional
> convention for naming network interfaces. biosdevname assigns names to
> network interfaces based on their physical location. Note, however
> that biosdevname is disabled by default, except for a limited set of
> Dell systems.
>
>
Thanks all for the responses.  I definitely did not manually install this
package.  It may have come in with OMSA or something else I installed.

I missed the 'yum update' note in the technical release notes that somebody
else posted, sigh.

I did another system with em1 and em2 devices and no udev net-rules file
and it rebooted just fine, puzzling.

daryl
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