Xen and 9th generation

[Jason Martens]

On Wed, 2006-07-26 at 15:58 -0500, Davis_Phillips at dell.com wrote:
> The HWADDR line in the ifcfg-ethX files _should_ work. This is more a
> working as designed. The 2.6 kernel will enumerate the devices in an
> descending order vs. the 2.4 kernels ascending order. This is not an
> issue on a non-9g system because the previous duel integrated NICs on
> all older machines shared the same pci bus. The 9G servers have separate
> PCI buses per each NIC, 5 and 9 I believe. I have experimented with
> various options including pci=nosort, netdev, ethers (deprecated). None
> of these particular options had an affect on the configuration. The
> naming policy on the NICs is arbitrary in the sense that as the devices
> are enumerated by the kernel the devices are named. I also went to far
> as to email the maintainer of broadcom's bnx2 driver. Some older modules
> (such as tulip) had the ability to flip the enumeration order.

Couldn't you use udev to name the interfaces?  A while ago I wrote some
rules (which I don't have now) to name the interfaces internal and
external instead of eth0 eth1 for my firewall server.  You should be
able to access the NIC's MAC from sysfs to have the naming persistent
too.

Jason Martens