Am Mittwoch, den 14.04.2010, 17:58 +0200 schrieb JohnS:
On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 15:12 +0000, Joseph L. Casale wrote:
The eth? names are assigned in more or less random order at bootup
Not exactly "random" but not always as expected:) http://linux.dell.com/files/whitepapers/nic-enum-whitepaper-v3.pdf
Nice paper by Michael.. What I do is disable all the nics in the bios via console rdir of drac 3 -5. Enable one at a time to install then enable the other integrated nics. Then have the the other nic hardware installed. Can also be done remote or local. It eases the frustration. Then you have them in the order you want.
John
We use spacewalk integraed cobbler for installation it takes the mac addresses as input for nic configuration and cares about that problem in a nice way.
Chris
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