Symantec Veritas 5 - Manual (Page 43)

To configure persistent interface names for network devices
1 Navigate to the hotplug file in the /etc/sysconfig directory:
# cd /etc/sysconfig
2 Open the hotplug file in an editor.
3 Set HOTPLUG_PCI_QUEUE_NIC_EVENTS to yes:
HOTPLUG_PCI_QUEUE_NIC_EVENTS=yes
4 Run the command:
ifconfig -a
5 Make sure that the interface name to MAC address mapping remains same
across the reboots.
Symantec recommends adding the PERSISTENT_NAME entries to the
configuration files for all the network interfaces (including the network
interfaces that are not used).
For each ethernet interface displayed, do the following:
■ If a file named /etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-eth-id-mac, where mac is the
hardware address of that interface, does not exist, then do the following:
Create the file.
If a file exists for the same network interface with the name
/etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-ethX, then copy the contents of that file into
the newly created file. The variable ethX represents the interface name.
■ Add the following line at the end of the file
/etc/sysconfig/network/ifcfg-eth-id-mac.
PERSISTENT_NAME=ethX
where ethX is the interface name.
For example:
# ifconfig -a
eth0 Link encap:Ethernet HWaddr 00:02:B3:DB:38:FE
inet addr:10.212.99.30 Bcast:10.212.99.255
Mask:255.255.254.0
inet6 addr: fe80::202:b3ff:fedb:38fe/64 Scope:Link
UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST MTU:1500 Metric:1
RX packets:453500 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 frame:0
TX packets:8131 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
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