[CentOS] 4.5 upgrades on production servers?

[Steve Friedman]

On Tue, 22 May 2007, Haakon Nilsen wrote:

> Greg Bailey wrote:
>> I upgraded to 4.5 without any problems, but I did have to account for the 
>> fact that the new kernel can potentially reorder NICs on certain HP and 
>> Dell servers, so all was well after I switched the network cable...
>> 
>> See:  http://kbase.redhat.com/faq/FAQ_46_10460.shtm
>
> Thanks for pointing that out, it turned out to be the solution to problems we 
> had with a Dell PowerEdge 1950.
>

We've had great success with http://linux.dell.com/files/name_eths/ on our 
various boxen (even non-Dell) to resolve this problem.

Steve Friedman