topic Re: Network interface names on Open Server in Firewall and Security Management

Network interface names on Open Server

khodgson_bts — Wed, 17 Jan 2024 09:37:03 GMT

Morning.

We have a customer who is deploying several gateway clusters built on Dell PE R750 servers, each server has 14 NIC's consisting of 8 x copper and 6 x fibre.

When installing GAIA it seems to randomly assign the interface names (eth0...eth13) and it's inconsistent across each sever, for example on one server the first fibre port is given eth4 and on another it's given eth7. The slots are all populated identically, in fact the servers are identical in every way.

Is there any way of changing/controlling/determining which interfaces are given which name?

Re: Network interface names on Open Server

Machine_Head — Wed, 17 Jan 2024 10:02:47 GMT

Hi buddy,

This is what you are looking for:

https://support.checkpoint.com/results/sk/sk69621

Solution ID: sk69621

Re: Network interface names on Open Server

khodgson_bts — Wed, 17 Jan 2024 10:06:03 GMT

That's awesome, thank you! I have no idea why I couldn't find that article with a search.