Migration from appliance to open server with identical interface names

[Christian_Wagen]

Is it possible to continue to use the interface names of an appliance on an open server?

[HeikoAnkenbrand · Accepted solution]

On the open server under:

/etc/udev/rules.d/00-OS-XX.rules

from

...NAME="eth0"

to

...NAME="External"

You can cange the interface name from "ethx" to the appliance interface name for example "External".

Then you must reboot the system.

[Christian_Wagen]

I'm at the center this minute. Thanks for the quick help. It worked fine. I'll give you a badge.

[Norbert_Bohusch]

I would recommend to always use the interface names of new appliance/open server, because such things as tinkering with udev-rules and so on are much more trouble (maybe not at first but later), than changing your clish configuration accordingly...

[HeikoAnkenbrand]

Yes, it is possible to change the GAIA Iiterfaces and the topology. I think this way is better. 

But the other way is quick and dirty.

I only use this to reorder the interface if necessary (EthX to MAC).

Regards

Heiko