Les Mikesell wrote:
On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 8:48 AM, m.roth@5-cent.us wrote:
The problem is when you clone a disk and ship it to a location with 'hands-on' support that doesn't know linux to install in a new chassis that will arrive there at the same time. Somehow you have to get someone to put the 4 network cables in the right NICs before anything can connect. With things tied to MAC addresses that you don't know ahead of time, nothing will work.
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We have to go through contortions plugging on cable in at a time, doing an 'ifconfig up' and checking which interface shows link up. And the people doing that part wish we used more windows instead of Linux.
ifconfig up? Not ethtool eth?
You have to do both. Link won't come up until you ifconfig up the device - which of course is difficult when you don't know its name...
I don't think so - pretty sure I was just using ethtool eth? the other week, to try to figure out the name of the port that I'd plugged the patch cord into. I *know* that the ones with nothing in them weren't up (and yes, obviously, I was at the console).
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