How to know the network name

[Jerry Geis]

On Sat, Oct 23, 2021 at 4:49 PM Colin Law <clanlaw at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 23 Oct 2021 at 18:54, Jerry Geis <jerry.geis at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I am converting machines that used eth0 and eth1 in the past.
> >
> > I need to specify the eno1, eno2, ens3, ens4 etcc... name on the
> "kernel" boot line - as I am doing a static IP install and the kernel
> command line needs to know - in addition the machine has two NICS - and I
> have to know which NIC is which ... as eth0 does not have internet access -
> but eth1 does.
> >
> > So on an old centos 6/7 machine - how do I know what the network will be
> named to so I can specify it on the kernel command line like:
> >
> > ip=192.168.122.200::192.168.122.1:255.255.255.0:ens4:none
>
> This explains how the interface names are derived from the hardware
> configuration
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consistent_Network_Device_Naming
>
> Colin
>
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Thanks - is there a command that spits out these names on a system ?
I tried biosdevname as a command - does not seem to be present.

Jerry
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