Karanbir Singh wrote:
On 04/09/09 21:38, Peter Magnusson wrote:
That problem has been long dealt with. Use HWADDR in ifcfg-* to statically bind physical interfaces.
Tried that. Didnt work.
are you saying that specifying the hwaddr still got you wrong device name allocations ? I find that quite hard to believe, unless you are doing some wierd bridging stuff and the nic's are not really using physical devices.
a bit more info about your setup would be good. on a usual machine, with usual nic's - I've never heard of hwaddr allocations going walkabout. ever.
Don't know about his situation but one place the concept is a real killer is when you ship an installed disk to a remote location to be plugged into a new identical box. Even on the times when I knew the MAC addresses and tried to preconfigure them, something would generally rename my prepared ifcfg-* files and generate new ones with an unwanted DCHP setting on the first boot.