<html><head></head><body><div>I had to create fake ethX devices once so MATLAB could actually keep it's license keys intact. A similar process works to create ethX alias to the real devices.</div><div><br></div><div>Hmm. That one oddball machine is going to bite me later as I don't recall which one it was. Oops. Search for a CentOS box with Matlab and a ethX nic name.</div><div><br></div><div>On Thu, 2017-02-09 at 16:12 -0500, Phil Turmel wrote:</div><blockquote type="cite"><pre>On 02/09/2017 04:04 PM, Lightner, Jeffrey wrote:
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There are, unfortunately, some applications that fail if they don't find eth# names.
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I guess if you're stuck with something like that, you could rename to
ethX names where X is sufficiently large to never show up naturally.
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