[CentOS] How Do I ...

Wed Apr 14 16:16:29 UTC 2010
Christoph Maser <cmr at financial.com>

Am Mittwoch, den 14.04.2010, 17:58 +0200 schrieb JohnS:
> On Wed, 2010-04-14 at 15:12 +0000, Joseph L. Casale wrote:
> > >The eth? names are assigned in more or less random order at bootup
> >
> > Not exactly "random" but not always as expected:)
> > http://linux.dell.com/files/whitepapers/nic-enum-whitepaper-v3.pdf
> ---
> Nice paper by Michael..  What I do is disable all the nics in the bios
> via console rdir of drac 3 -5.  Enable one at a time to install then
> enable the other integrated nics.  Then have the the other nic hardware
> installed.  Can also be done remote or local. It eases the frustration.
> Then you have them in the order you want.
>
> John
>

We use spacewalk integraed cobbler for installation it takes the mac
addresses as input for nic configuration and cares about that problem in
a nice way.

Chris



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