Oracle Sun Blade X4-2B Installation Manual page 24

Identifying Logical and Physical Network Interface Names
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Identify Logical and Physical Network Interface
Names (Oracle Linux or RHEL)
During installation and configuration of the Oracle or Red Hat Enterprise Linux OS, you reach
a point where you must enter the logical and physical names (MAC addresses) of the network
interfaces.
This section explains how to launch a user shell during the Linux configuration to obtain the
logical and physical network interface names that you need to continue with the configuration.
At the boot prompt type: linux rescue and then press Enter.
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The Choose a Language screen appears.
In the Choose a Language screen, select the appropriate language, and click OK.
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The Keyboard Type screen appears.
In the Keyboard Type screen, select the appropriate configuration, and then click OK.
3
The Setup Network screen appears.
In the Setup Network screen, click No.
4
The Rescue screen appears.
In the Rescue screen, click Skip.
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The user shell appears.
At the command prompt (#) in the user shell, type the following command to display all network
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interfaces, and then press Enter.
# ifconfig -a
The output of the Linux named network interfaces appear.
If you have multiple network interfaces and the output of interfaces scrolls off the top of the
screen, you can display the output per interface.
To view the output of each network interface, type the following at the command prompt, and
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then press Enter:
# ifconfig eth#
where eth# is the interface number. For example, if you type:
# ifconfig eth0
24 Sun Blade X4-2B Installation Guide for Linux Operating Systems • March 2014