rhel4 detects NICs in reverse on a 2950

[Simon Gao]

Anyone knows when Dell is going to fix this problem permanently, instead 
of just workaround?

Simon


J. Epperson wrote:
> On Tue, September 5, 2006 20:21, G-man wrote:
>   
>> Anyone else having the problem of the network cards being detected in
>> reverse on a 2950? Took a little while to figure out when kickstarting
>> rhel4u4 via pxe. eth0 is actally the NIC marked "2" on the back of the
>> computer. I would expect eth0 to be the one marked "1".
>>
>> Any ideas how I can fix this? I can set HWADDR in ifcfg-eth0 post
>> install, but that is more of a bandaid  fix.
>>
>>     
> On Tue, August 1, 2006 18:10, Matt Domsch wrote:
>   
>> I've released version 0.3 of my name_eths program, adding support for
>> SLES10 in addition to the support for Red Hat and Fedora
>> distributions.
>>
>> 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-0.3.tar.gz
>> http://linux.dell.com/files/name_eths/name_eths-0.3.tar.gz.sign
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Matt
>>
>> P.S.
>> 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 using Red Hat's anaconda installer and PXELinux, the PXELinux
>> option IPAPPEND can be used to have anaconda use the same NIC that
>> is used for PXE booting.  See the syslinux documentation for more
>> information.
>>
>> 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.
>>     
>
>
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