Les Mikesell wrote:
On 5/3/2011 9:42 AM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
If you've got one nic, it'a a pretty sure bet that any detection order is going to call it eth0. Add a few more and I think you'll change your opinion, especially with that headless situation where all you can do is move wires until ssh works. That's extra fun when you on the phone and paying by the hour for remote support.
*shrug* I don't have a lot of systems with more than one NIC, but I can always do ethtool eth<whatever> till I see a link detected - that's a matter of a minute or two, unless you've got a *lot* of ports.
We typically have at least 2 active, some with 4 or 5, and the machines mostly come with broadcomm NICs on the motherboard which we ignore and add Intel server cards. So there are always 4 to 8 possibilities and 2 to 5 connected wires with link up and the intel cards have an
<snip> Sorry, I sit corrected: most of our servers do have two NICs, but we only use one, except for clustered systems.
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