Les Mikesell wrote: > On Fri, Sep 9, 2011 at 11:51 AM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: >> >>> Clonezilla (especially with the drbl server) can do this pretty >>> quickly over the network without having to juggle disks, but you end >>> up with the same problem with the NICs - and in fact you will have it >>> with any method of backing up and restoring on a different machine so >>> it is something to consider even if you aren't cloning. On 5.x, >>> kudzu would normally run on the new machine, rename all the >>> NIC-related files and create new default dhcp-based copies. Not sure >>> how 6.0 works in that respect. If it doesn't do it automatically, you >> <snip> >> We've gone to upgrading using rsync, and NICs are a problem. UDEV >> renames the NICs - eth0 to eth2, eth1 to eth3, and so there are no >> ifcfg-eth? for them. Removing the MAC fixes this, including down in >> /etc/udev/rules.d//70-persistant-net.rules > > So how do you know which NIC is which then? Most of my boxes have 4 > to 6 and they appear in random order (well, flipped in pairs by > driver) on reboots without being anchored with MAC addresses? I need > each one to keep the same IP and associated routes. Yeah, I wasn't thinking of that. At some point, I should probably go back into that rulefile and fix it. Hmmm, or write a simple script.... mark