JohnS wrote:
On Sat, 2009-04-25 at 20:33 +0200, Kai Schaetzl wrote:
I have a strange problem on one machine where eth0 gets killed when I add a virtual interface. It's got something to do with the NIC ordering or with the xen network script having a problem with multiple NICs and virtual interfaces. I could need some help/comments on this.
Some history: I added a NIC (chip identifies as Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet) to a Dell R200 server. CentOS 5.3 with Xen 3.3.1 (gitco repo).
see this: http://linux.dell.com/files/whitepapers/nic-enum-whitepaper-v3.pdf
This is a known issue with all Poweredge Servers. It will give you an explanation and workaround for it.
I don't think there is anything unique to Dells about this. The kernel essentially randomizes device naming on everything. Dell just took the trouble to document it.