Les Mikesell wrote: > On 5/3/2011 9:42 AM, m.roth at 5-cent.us wrote: >> >>> If you've got one nic, it'a a pretty sure bet that any detection order >>> is going to call it eth0. Add a few more and I think you'll change >>> your >>> opinion, especially with that headless situation where all you can do >>> is >>> move wires until ssh works. That's extra fun when you on the phone and >>> paying by the hour for remote support. >> >> *shrug* I don't have a lot of systems with more than one NIC, but I can >> always do ethtool eth<whatever> till I see a link detected - that's a >> matter of a minute or two, unless you've got a *lot* of ports. > > We typically have at least 2 active, some with 4 or 5, and the machines > mostly come with broadcomm NICs on the motherboard which we ignore and > add Intel server cards. So there are always 4 to 8 possibilities and 2 > to 5 connected wires with link up and the intel cards have an <snip> Sorry, I sit corrected: most of our servers do have two NICs, but we only use one, except for clustered systems. mark