Redhat AS4 (Release 3) on Dell Poweredge 1950

[Marc Mondragon]

Same for the 2950.

I was pulling my hair out trying to get my PXE booting working 'til I
figured it out.

Marc Mondragon
 
Fox River Financial Resources/Ritchie Capital Investments, Ltd.
2100 Enterprise Avenue
Geneva, IL  60134
marcmo at foxriver.com


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tom Brown [mailto:tom at ng23.net]
> Sent: Thursday, July 06, 2006 3:30 AM
> To: Henrik Schmiediche
> Cc: linux-poweredge at dell.com
> Subject: Re: Redhat AS4 (Release 3) on Dell Poweredge 1950
> 
> 
> > Never mind. Turns out that the network port marked 2 on the back of
the
> > PowerEdge 1950 is eth0 and the one marked 1 is eth1. Could have
sworn it
> was
> > the other way around in older PowerEdge's.
> 
> interesting..... we had some 1955's on test a while back and i could
not
> get networking going either. Everything looked fine but just no
packets
> passed. Turns out after lots of faffing that the interfaces on the
back
> of the blade appear 'swapped' around so where on an 1855 we'd
configure
> switch 1 for the VLANS etc we had to configure switch 2 to bring up
eth0
> on the blade.
> 
> So it seems that the 1950 and the 1955 display the same
characteristics
> (which you'd expect i guess as they are the same thing) - That might
> help avoid some wasted time for someone.
>