In Redhat and CentOS
Network interface cards are auto-discovered, they can be seen here;
/etc/udev/rules.d/ in the file
70-persistent-net.rules
View the File:
cat /etc/udev/rules.d/70-persistent-net.rules
Output:
# This file was automatically generated by the /lib/udev/write_net_rules
# program, run by the persistent-net-generator.rules rules file.
#
# You can modify it, as long as you keep each rule on a single
# line, and change only the value of the NAME= key.
# net device () (custom name provided by external tool)
SUBSYSTEM==”net”, ACTION==”add”,
DRIVERS==”?*”, ATTR{address}==”00:15:5d:xx:xx:xx”, ATTR{type}==”1″,
KERNEL==”eth*”, NAME=”eth1″
# net device () (custom name provided by external tool)
SUBSYSTEM==”net”, ACTION==”add”,
DRIVERS==”?*”, ATTR{address}==”00:15:5d:xx:xx:xx”, ATTR{type}==”1″,
KERNEL==”eth*”, NAME=”eth0″
Note: In Linux 2.6 and above UDEV is the auto-discovery device manager and replaces the functionality of both
hotplug and
hwdetect. See:
udev-ArchWiki and
udev-Wikipedia
The network configuration files may also be auto created here:
/etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ in the file
ifcfg-ethXX