Dell 1U User Manual

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Migrating from Conventional Device

Names to Consistent Device Names for

Ethernet Devices in Red Hat®

Enterprise Linux® v6

A Dell White Paper

Names to Consistent Device Names for Ethernet Devices in Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® v6

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Contents

Introduction ........................................................................................................... 4

Distributions .......................................................................................................... 4

Pre-requisites ......................................................................................................... 4

Preparation ........................................................................................................... 5

Migrating the configuration from an old naming to the new naming scheme ............................. 6

Upgrade ............................................................................................................... 6

Manual network device reconfiguration ....................................................................... 7

Using the system-config-network utility to perform network device reconfiguration .................. 7

Sample Scripts......................................................................................................... 8

Reference .............................................................................................................. 8

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