On 01/14/2014 09:25 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: > On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 7:56 PM, Darr247 <darr247 at gmail.com> wrote: >> On 2014-01-14 8:34 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: >>> On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 7:17 PM, Warren Young <warren at etr-usa.com> wrote: >>> Now I have to remember which *PCI slot* my Ethernet card is in when I >>> run "ifconfig" unless I want to dig through the full listing. >>> Yes, but that's something you _can_ know. >>> >> So... which PCI/PCI-e slots are associated with the dual gigabit NICs >> integrated in/on every ASUS board I've bought over the last 8 years? > > I wouldn't know on the first one, but the important thing is that if > you have 50 identical servers they would all be the same for the same > physical location. The way 6.x works, the motherboard set and the > pair on the card will randomly flip in the initial detection. With > 5.x having the MAC address in the ifcfg-ethx file was enough. With > 6.x you also need a udev rule to nail the name down. These get tied > to MAC addresses in the initial install, but that makes it painful to > clone systems or restore backups into a different box. > Hmm... we have over a 1000 units in the field and CentOS always enumerates the 6 ethx interfaces the same - as they are labeled by the manufacturer of the hardware. This has continued to be consistent even when the manufacturer upgraded the MB. -- Stephen Clark *NetWolves* Director of Technology Phone: 813-579-3200 Fax: 813-882-0209 Email: steve.clark at netwolves.com http://www.netwolves.com