rhel4 detects NICs in reverse on a 2950

[Dirk Allaert]

What about people (like us), who order a 1950 or 2950 without an OS 
installed? There was nothing in the supplied documentation about this or 
the need to disable IPMI when using Xen.

Matt Domsch wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 11:04:30AM -0700, Simon Gao wrote:
>   
>> Well, if 2950 is certified with RHEL4, then why I do not see any doc 
>> anywhere mentioning the NIC order reverse problem?  Neither Red Hat nor 
>> Dell engineer found the problem?  To me, this problem is pretty easy to 
>> duplicate.
>>     
>
> Not to belabor the point, but it's in our printed tech sheet that
> comes with the system when ordering Linux, and also available online.
>
> Support.dell.com
>   Manuals
>     Software
>       Operating System
>         Red Hat Enterprise Linux (Version 4) Operating System
>           (choose language)
>              
> Red Hat Enterprise Linux (Version 4) for Intel x86 and EM64T
> Installation Instructions and Important Information (.pdf)
>
> printed page 18, PDF page 20:
>
> Inconsistent Network Device Enumeration
>
> Linux operating system versions that use the udev kernel device
> manager may enumerate the Network Interface Cards (NICs) differently
> than earlier Linux versions, that uses the devfs device manager.
> Although this does not affect system functionality when using Red Hat
> Enterprise Linux (Version 4) or SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9
> operating systems, NIC1 may be configured as eth1 rather than as eth0,
> and NIC2 as eth0. For more information and methods for changing
> default device enumerations, see the white papers at linux.dell.com.
>
>
>   
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