[CentOS] Server Install Eth0 & Eth1 not working

Ed Morrison

ed at morrisonnetworks.com
Tue Jan 16 01:41:34 UTC 2007


> There are many issues on the lists.dell.com concerning the broadcom
> cards. As an example:
>
> http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-poweredge/2004-October/thread.html#16951
>
> I just checked all my dell servers (I have many) ... but most seem to have intel gigbit NICs.
>
> "Intel Corporation 82541GI/PI Gigabit Ethernet Controller" on most.
>
> Well ... I have this on one machine and it seems to be working OK:
>
> "Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme BCM5721 Gigabit Ethernet PCI Express"
>
> If you use these search terms on google, you will see many issues with broadcom cards on RHEL:
>
> "site:http://lists.us.dell.com/pipermail/linux-poweredge/ tg3"
>   
>   
Thanks Johnny.  Looks like the wrong naming of the eth0 and eth1 was the 
current problem.  I'll be replacing the current NIC's to rid myself of 
any more issues.

Ed




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