You can specify the Hardware (MAC) address in the network config (ifcfg-ethn) for each card to prevent this from happening, especially if the cards use the same driver.... P. Doug Zeman wrote: > you can use netdevice=(eth*) and/or ksdevice=(eth*) in the kernel > command line when kickstarting.... you can also set the MAC in > /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth* to whatever port you want... > ... thanks > > - doug > > ************************************************************************ > Doug Zeman \ \ | __ \ ____ | Phone: 408 7747674 > CAD Sys Eng II / \ | _/ | | | | Cell : 408 7187466 > CA MicroProc Div ____ \ | | | | | | Fax : 408 7747811 > Sunnyvale, CA _/ _\_| _| _____/ ____/ \| doug.zeman at amd.com > ************************************************************************ > > > sudo Yang wrote: > >> One of my systems have two onboard NICs which uses the e100 and e1000 >> drivers (yes, the interfaces are not the same). This system kickstart >> fine with CentOS 3.x. I recently tried to rekick it with CentOS 4.x >> but was unsuccessful in doing so. When kicking CentOS 4.1, the >> interfaces are swapped around, i.e. eth0 becomes eth1 and eth1 becomes >> eth0 (as described at >> http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=104888957013124&w=2). >> Is there a way to fix the interface during kickstart? >> >> Unfortunately, because we have so many different types of systems, >> simply swapping the cables is not a good idea because it complicates >> management. >> _______________________________________________ >> CentOS mailing list >> CentOS at centos.org >> http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >> >> > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos