PE2900 NIC ordering

[Matt Domsch]

On Tue, Jul 11, 2006 at 04:24:15PM -0400, Greg Dickie wrote:
> 
> Hi Matt,
> 
> 
>   Thanks for that but its using MAC addresses which I was hoping to
> avoid.

This really needs to be come a udev rule PROGRAM= thing, which figures
out the name "on the fly" rather than hard-coding it.  Volunteers? :-)

> 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? 

I've seen this before, but never saw why; and never could reproduce it
when I needed to...  Any luck on your end?

Thanks,
Matt


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