PE2900 NIC ordering

[Greg Dickie]

Hi Matt,


  Thanks for that but its using MAC addresses which I was hoping to
avoid. Also it doesn't seem to work on my RHEL 4.3-like system,
specifically it looks like when I do ifup eth0 after running the script,
it screws up in get_config_by_hwaddr and loops. The error messages are
like

interface 'dev2909' not found
interface 'dev3100' not found
etc.

forever


I'll take a better look later but do you have any ideas? 

thanks,
Greg

On Tue, 2006-07-11 at 13:40 -0500, Matt Domsch wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 10:32:38AM -0400, Greg Dickie wrote:
> > 
> > Hi,
> > 
> >   I know it has come up before but has anyone found a way to fix (or
> > cover up) the fact that Linux and the BIOS disagree on the built in NIC
> > ordering? ie the fact that GB2=eth0 and GB1=eth1. I really don't want to
> > have to resort to fiddling around with MAC addresses....
> 
> http://linux.dell.com/files/name_eths/
> for Red Hat.  I/someone needs to update this for SuSE too.
> 
> Thanks,
> Matt
> 
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Greg Dickie
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