[CentOS] ethernet interfaces swapped around

[sudo Yang]

I've seen that as well, even with RedHat 9.0.  With Linux, because
it's so configurable and flexible, I'm surprise there isn't an easy
way to do this.  I could swap the cable on a few systems to do the
installation, but we have thousands of systems this is not feasible.

Anyway, thank you for the response.  At least I know I'm not alone :)


On 8/1/05, Jim Wildman <jim at rossberry.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, sudo Yang wrote:
> 
> > One of my systems have two onboard NICs which uses the e100 and e1000
> > drivers (yes, the interfaces are not the same).  This system kickstart
> > fine with CentOS 3.x.  I recently tried to rekick it with CentOS 4.x
> > but was unsuccessful in doing so.  When kicking CentOS 4.1, the
> > interfaces are swapped around, i.e. eth0 becomes eth1 and eth1 becomes
> > eth0 (as described at
> > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=104888957013124&w=2).
> > Is there a way to fix the interface during kickstart?
> >
> 
> For real fun, add a PCI based dual port card.  Then the first onboard
> NIC will probably be (but not for sure) eth2!!!
> 
> The short answer is there is no guaranteed way.  The long answer is you
> may be able to add module loading commands to the kernel invocation line
> in your kickstart file and get the old behavior.  Does not work for all
> servers.
> 
> I've got notes at work about it, but can't seem to find them from home.
> 
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