How to change a network interface name on CentOS 7

Posted by xmodulo on Sep 21, 2014 10:12 AM EDT
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Traditionally, network interfaces in Linux are enumerated as eth[0123...], but these names do not necessarily correspond to actual hardware slots, PCI geography, USB port number, etc. This introduces a unpredictable naming problem (e.g., due to undeterministic device probing behavior) which can cause various network misconfigurations.

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