After installing RHEL/CentOS 7 minimal, You may not able to connect network in that machine. This will happen because Ethernet interfaces are not enabled by default. This guide explain you to setup network on RHEL/CentOS 7.

Setup network on CentOS 7 minimal

First, type “nmcli d” command in your terminal for quick list ethernet card installed on your machine:

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“nmcli d” command output

Type “nmtui” command in your terminal to open Network manager. After opening Network manager chose “Edit connection” and press Enter (Use TAB button for choosing options).

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CentOS_7 Network manager screen

Now choose you network interfaces and click “Edit”

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Edit your network interfaces

DHCP configuration

Choose “Automatic” in IPv4 CONFIGURATION and check Automatically connect check box and press OK and quit from Network manager.

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Set ip adress using DHCP

Reset network services:

service network restart

Now your server will get IP Address from DHCP .

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CentOS 7 check ip address