> I have a Dell server that has two built-in ethernet devices. When I > kickstart the machine, they are correctly identified as eth0 and eth1 > (correctly meaning they correspond to the physical device ports 1 and > 2). I > need a third one and want that to come up as eth2. After adding the > hardware, kickstart now fails because for some reason it goes through a > rename process where it makes the newly added card eth1 (or eth0, I > forgot). Is there a way to stop this rename process so kickstart > correctly > uses the physical hardware the way they are, meaning physical port 1 = > eth0, port 2 = eth1, and the additional ethernet card then becomes > eth2? > > Should I be using the device's MAC address when I set the 'network' > option > in the kickstart file? So instead of 'network --device=eth0' I make it > 'network -device=aa;bb:cc:dd:eee:ff' ? ksdevice=aa;bb:cc:dd:ee:ff in your above example will ensure the device with that mac is the kickstart device.