[CentOS] 6.x - find interface with link up

[Les Mikesell]

On Sun, Dec 18, 2011 at 6:18 PM, Philip Manuel <phil at zomojo.com> wrote:
>
>> I thought I saw it mentioned in release notes for RHEL 6.1 but it said
>> something about support being limited to certain Dell models.  I'm not
>> sure it is going to be perfect anyway, since most of the machines in
>> question have Broadcom NICs on the motherboards and the ones we
>> actually use are on Intel cards that may not exactly match types or
>> slot positions.   But I'd settle for something that had something to
>> do with the slot position...
>>
> http://www.pkje.net/meander/?p=115 - this may help on the device
> ordering for 6.x if you know the mac addresses then you can fix the
> names of the interfaces

The scenario I really want to handle is sending a disk or clonezilla
image to meet up with a new chassis in a remote location, minimizing
anything the remote operators have to know/do to get it to a point
where it is up on the network.

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  Les Mikesell
     lesmikesell at gmail.com