name_eths 0.4 released - adds SLES9 support

[Simon Gao]

Any plan to make it compatible with Gentoo?

Simon

Matt Domsch wrote:
> I've released version 0.4 of my name_eths program, adding support for
> SLES9 in addition to the support for SLES10, Red Hat and Fedora
> distributions.  The SLES9 work modifies /sbin/ifup and
> /etc/sysconfig/network/scripts/functions.common and adds
> /sbin/rename_netiface, enhancements that are in SLES10 that I
> backported to SLES9.
>
> This program uses BIOS information to assign the system's embedded
> NICs the lowest ethX numbers, and assigns NICs in add-in slots to
> higher ethX numbers.  This avoids confusion caused by the BIOS and
> printed docs specifying the embedded devices as NIC1 and NIC2, when
> Linux then finds them in the reverse order eth1 and eth0.  Using
> name_eths, NIC1 and NIC2 get assigned to eth0 and eth1 as would be expected.
>
> http://linux.dell.com/files/name_eths/name_eths-0.4.tar.gz
> http://linux.dell.com/files/name_eths/name_eths-0.4.tar.gz.sign
>
> Thanks,
> Matt
>
> P.S.
> If using Red Hat's anaconda installer and PXELinux (RHEL4 U3 and
> higher, FC4 and higher), the PXELinux options IPAPPEND 2 and APPEND
> ksdevice=bootif can be used to have anaconda use the same NIC that is
> used for PXE booting.  See the syslinux documentation for more
> information.
>
> If using Red Hat's anaconda installer and you have only one NIC
> with a cable plugged in, use 'ksdevice=link', then use name_eths after
> installation is complete.
>
>
> If all else fails, use ksdevice=macaddr, where macaddr is the MAC
> address of the NIC you want to use for the install.  See the anaconda
> docs or sourcecode for more details.
>
> On SLES, netdevice=ethN  (where N=0, 1, whatever you need) works.
>
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