[rhelv6-list] RHEL7 NIC naming convention

[Matthias Saou]

On Thu, 13 Feb 2014 08:32:53 +0100
Gianluca Cecchi <gianluca.cecchi at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 13, 2014 at 8:08 AM, Romu wrote:
> > RHEL7 uses different names for NICs, in RHEL4/5/6 it's always
> > eth0/1/2/3..., but in RHEL7 I've seen em1/2, ens3...  What is the
> > rule here?  How can I know whether the NIC name will be em or ens?
> >
> 
> It can be useful reading from here from which RHEL 7 inherits:
> http://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/Fedora/18/html/System_Administrators_Guide/appe-Consistent_Network_Device_Naming.html

...or just reading about RHEL7 itself :-)

https://access.redhat.com/site/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7-Beta/html/Networking_Guide/Consistent_Network_Device_Naming.html

The "rules" are all there (check the next few pages).

Matthias