Bill Davidsen wrote:
Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote:
>
> If you are using the network service and DHCP, ifcfg-eth0 should
> look something like this:
>
> DEVICE=eth0
> BOOTPROTO=dhcp
> ONBOOT=yes
> HWADDR=<MAC address>
> DHCP_HOSTNAME=<something>
> TYPE=Ethernet
> IPV6INIT=no
> NM_CONTROLLED=no
> USERCTL=no
>
> You don't need all of this - you could get by with:
>
> DEVICE=eth0
> BOOTPROTO=dhcp
> ONBOOT=yes
> NM_CONTROLLED=no
>
I really suggest using the MAC field, it prevents learning about
Plauger's Law (law of least astonishment) the hard way... Of course the
O.P. was using the MAC field (I suspect) and didn't know it.
> You should also be able to create it using system-config-network.
>
Indeed. And I believe that should be part of the default install again.
> Mikkel
>
With /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules, you are probably not
going to run into it if you do not use HWADDR in ifcfg-eth? On the
other hand, I do tend to use something like the first example I gave
- you don't need to, but it can prevent surprises.
Mikkel
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